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Media Highlights
March 2003
This summary highlights prominent media placements UCSC faculty and staff have garnered during the month of March 2003.
International
A reporter from Asahi Shimbun, Japan’s leading daily with a circulation of 8.2 million, flew to California to spend a day interviewing Dane Archer of sociology about crime in the United States. . . . Research on links between ocean currents and rockfish populations by oceanographer Margaret McManus and her colleagues in the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) was covered in New Scientist magazine.
National
The New York Times ran an op-ed piece by American studies professor Tricia Rose about the effect of race, sex, and stigmas in the fight against AIDS. . . . Michael Riordan, adjunct professor of physics, was quoted in a New York Times article about a German physicist who independently invented the transistor shortly after the Bell Laboratories researchers who won fame and Nobel Prizes for the invention. . . . Psychology’s Craig Haney was featured in an article in The Nation about supermax prisons. . . . The New York Times devoted several paragraphs in an article on the front page of the Health & Fitness section to discussing the book Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior by associate professor of philosophy John Doris. . . . Francisco Hernandez, vice chancellor for Student Affairs, was quoted in an article in BusinessWire.com about the AP test preparation service now being offered on the web free to California high school students by the University of California. The service is an extension of the UC College Prep Initiative, which Hernandez developed in collaboration with other UC campuses. . . . The Illinois State Journal-Register cited a lecture by professor of history Bruce Levine in commemoration of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday at the Lincoln Home National Historic Site. . . . Psychology professor Anthony Pratkanis, whose expertise on wartime propaganda and psychological warfare has been in demand, fielded calls from the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong's biggest English-language newspaper, as well as from the Los Angeles Times. . . . Economist Nirvikar Singh was quoted in a Computer User article about jobs. . . . History of conscious professor Angela Davis was quoted in the Boston Globe about an appearance at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she argued that prisons should be abolished. She was also quoted in the Lancaster, Pa., Intelligencer Journal about her critique of the Bush administration in an appearance at Millersville University. . . . Astronomer Stephen Thorsett was quoted in a UPI wire-service story about pulsars.
State and regional
The Oakland Tribune did a feature article about a UC study of first-year students that’s being conducted by psychology’s Margarita Azmitia. . . . Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood was quoted in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about new federal rules governing research on potential bioterror agents. . . . The Associated Press, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and San Jose Mercury News were among the media outlets that reported on the faculty approval of an antiwar resolution sponsored by Paul Ortiz of community studies. . . . History of consciousness professor Angela Davis was quoted in a Contra Costa Times article about veterans and the antiwar movement. . . . Economist Lori Kletzer appeared in the winter issue of Region Focus, discussing free-trade issues.
Local
Astronomer Puragra (Raja) GuhaThakurta was featured in an article in the Mid-County Post about research in astronomy at UCSC. . . . Lindsay Hinck, assistant professor of molecular, cell, and developmental (MCD) biology, and John Tamkun, professor and chair of MCD biology, were quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article about UCSC's new health sciences major. . . . An article in Good Times about coastal erosion and seawalls featured the comments of Gary Griggs, director of the Institute of Marine Sciences, and graduate student Dawn Osborn. . . . Harry Noller, Sinsheimer Professor of Molecular Biology, was interviewed on the KUSP Radio program Talk of the Bay on the subject of UCSC's role in the Human Genome Project. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about history professor Jonathan Beecher’s Faculty Research Lecture titled "Two Concepts of Utopia." . . . Isebill Gruhn of politics was interviewed by KGO Radio on the topic of the war with Iraq. . . . The Arboretum's Stephen McCabe was featured in an article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel about Hummingbird Day at the Arboretum. . . . Graduate students Teresa Ish and Shelly Benoit were featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article about their efforts to educate consumers about how to choose sustainably harvested fish. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a front-page feature story, quoting library development director Margaret Gordon, about renowned cookbook author and alumnus Bruce Aidells’s donation to establish a cookery endowment at UCSC.
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