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Media Highlights

April 2003

This summary highlights prominent media placements UCSC faculty and staff have garnered during the month of April 2003.

International

An article about fisheries management in New Scientist magazine featured quotes from Marc Mangel, professor of applied math and statistics and head of the Center for Stock Assessment Research, and Teresa Ish, a graduate student in ocean sciences. . . . Faye Crosby of psychology gave interviews to London’s Guardian newspaper, as well as KUSP Radio and Metro Santa Cruz, about the U.S. Supreme Court case challenging the use of affirmative action in admissions by the University of Michigan. . . . During a recent visit to France, where he was invited to speak at the Sorbonne University and to a group of multicultural community leaders in Marseilles, sociology professor John Brown Childs was quoted in the newspaper Le Provençal on the subject of transcommunal cooperation among diverse populations. . . . Associate professor of Earth sciences Erik Asphaug published an article in New Scientist magazine about efforts to monitor asteroids that might be on a collision course with Earth, and how the asteroid threat compares with other natural hazards.

National

Amelie Hastie, assistant professor of film and digital media, was consulted for a piece in the New York Times where she discussed media representation of the war in Iraq. The story was also picked up in Le Monde. . . . Jerry Nelson, director of the Center for Adaptive Optics, and Joseph Miller, director of UC Observatories/Lick Observatory, were quoted in a story about adaptive optics that ran in several Knight Ridder newspapers, including the Charleston Gazette, Charlotte Observer, and Duluth News-Tribune. . . . K. C. Fung appeared on PBS's Newshour with Jim Lehrer discussing the economic impact of SARS in cities like Hong Kong. . . . Research by Bruce Lyon, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, showing that coots can recognize and count their own eggs, even when other birds have laid eggs in the same nest, received widespread media coverage, including articles in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, New York Times, UPI and Reuters wire services, and the magazines Science News and The Scientist. Online coverage included National Geographic News, MSNBC, ABC News, and web sites of the British newspapers the Daily Mirror and the Independent. . . . Copley News Service tapped the propaganda expertise of psychology’s Anthony Pratkanis, who also spoke with the Daily Oklahoman about the 1996 publication of the "Shock and Awe: Rapid Dominance" doctrine. Pratkanis was also interviewed by Utah’s Ogden Standard Examiner about brainwashing and cultic influence processes as part of the paper's coverage of the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case. . . . Astrophysicist Stan Woosley was quoted in an article about gamma ray bursts and other violent cosmic phenomena that ran in numerous Knight Ridder newspapers, including the Houston Chronicle, Charleston Gazette, Charlotte Observer, Duluth News-Tribune, Billings Gazette, and Lexington Herald-Leader. . . . Sociology’s Bill Domhoff wrote a thought-provoking piece for the magazine In These Times on redefining "who’s ‘us’ and ‘them’" in the quest for egalitarian social change. . . . Ann Caudle, coordinator of the Science Illustration Program, was quoted in a Sierra magazine article about scientific illustration. . . . A Cincinnati Enquirer story about fetal surgery mentioned sociologist Monica Casper’s book, The Making of the Unborn Patient. . . . Professor of astronomy and astrophysics Garth Illingworth was quoted in news stories about the planned launch of a powerful new space telescope called SIRTF, the fourth of NASA's "Great Observatories." The stories appeared in several newspapers, including the Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, Florida Today, and Salt Lake Tribune. . . . The Oregonian quoted history of consciousness professor Barbara Epstein in a piece about the antiwar movement. . . . James Estes, adjunct professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, was featured in an article in the Washington Post about predation by killer whales on other marine mammals, including seals, sea lions, and sea otters. . . . The Work of Dance: Labor, Movement and Identity in the 1930s, a recent book by theater arts professor Mark Franko, was hailed as "remarkable" and "riveting" in the April issue of Choice.

State and regional

UCSC faculty were in demand during the Iraq war: Alan Richards of environmental studies was interviewed by La Opinion newspaper and KUSP Radio, and the Salinas Californian checked in with Richards, historian Terry Burke, and political scientist Ronnie Lipschutz for an update on the war. . . . Amelie Hastie, assistant professor of film and digital media, made an appearance with host Andrea Lewis on KPFA Radio to discuss television coverage of the war against Iraq. . . . The San Jose Mercury News covered the recent Mexico City meeting between government officials and Mexican expatriates who live in the United States, tapping Jonathan Fox of Latin American and Latino studies for comment on the significance of the meeting. . . . When leaders of the Human Genome Project announced its successful completion this month, several news articles mentioned the role of UCSC bioinformatics researchers in the project, including David Haussler, director of the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, and CBSE research scientist James Kent. The stories appeared in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Scientist magazine. . . . The Salinas Californian featured Lisa Sloan, associate professor of Earth sciences, in a story about how global warming is likely to affect the Central Coast. . . . The Monterey Herald ran a story about art exhibits at the UC Monterey Bay Education, Science and Technology (MBEST) Center. MBEST assistant director Shelley Kadota was quoted in the story.

Local

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about how producers of the movie The Core consulted with professor of Earth sciences Gary Glatzmaier, but ended up ignoring his advice. Glatzmaier was also quoted in stories about the movie's scientific weaknesses in Popular Science and MSNBC News. . . . Glenn Stewart, program manager for the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group, was interviewed by local media, including the Santa Cruz Sentinel, KSCO Radio, and KION TV, about the release of three peregrine falcon fledglings at Long Marine Laboratory. The Sentinel story also quoted Seymour Center director Julie Barrett Heffington. . . . A Santa Cruz Sentinel story about "blogs," or online journalism, featured comments from UCSC journalism instructor Kevin Woodward and politics professor Bruce Larkin. . . . Literature lecturer and poet Charles Atkinson was featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article about how the war in Iraq seeps into American art. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran an item about Todd Lowe, assistant professor of computer engineering, who was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured associate professor of music Hi Kyung Kim in an article about her role as artistic director of the UCSC Music Department’s Pacific Rim Music Festival. . . . 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. . . . An article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel about marine reserves included quotes from Mark Carr, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.

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