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Media Highlights
April 2004
This summary highlights prominent media placements UCSC faculty and staff have garnered during the month of April 2004.
International
Lisa Sloan, professor of Earth sciences, and graduate student Jacob Sewall were featured in news stories about their findings that the melting of Arctic sea ice may lead to reduced rain and snowfall in the American West. Stories appeared in New Scientist magazine and in the Vancouver Sun, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Kansas City Star, San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, and Monterey County Herald. Sloan was also interviewed on KSCO Radio. . . . Italy’s classical guitar magazine GuitArt International ran a feature article about music lecturer Mesut Özgen’s multimedia project, New Dimensions in Classical Guitar, detailing his collaboration with assistant film and digital media professor Gustavo Vazquez, music lecturer Peter Elsea, and assistant theater arts professor David Cuthbert. . . . Economist Mike Dooley's views about the U.S. dollar in the global economy were featured in a Financial Times column. . . . In community studies, research by Julie Guthman was discussed in Organics, a British trade journal aimed at a U.S. audience. . . . In a story about the impact of outsourcing, the Economic Times of India cited a study by economist Lori Kletzer that found that in the 1980s and 1990s, two-thirds of workers who lost jobs in manufacturing industries hit by overseas competition earned less on their next job. . . . John Wilkes, director of the Science Communication Program, was featured in an article about science journalism in Bridges, a publication of the Austrian Office of Science and Technology.
National
The New York Times quoted political scientist Bob Meister in a story about whether U.S. aid to Iraqi insurgents bred future terrorists. . . . Gerald Barnett, director of the Office for Management of Intellectual Property, was the subject of a profile in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The story focused on Barnett's unconventional approach to technology transfer, and included quotes from vice chancellor for research Robert Miller, chemistry professor Glenn Millhauser, and history professor Alan Christy. . . . Associate professor of literature Kirsten Silva Gruesz was featured in a Chronicle of Higher Education article about the profusion of buzzwords in the field of American studies. . . . Psychology instructor Donald Saposnek was quoted in a Columbia News Service story that appeared in the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers about an innovative martial arts therapy that helps children with mild behavioral disorders. . . . National Public Radio’s Morning Edition program tapped sociology instructor Mike Males for comment on teen curfews. . . . Brian Walton, coordinator of the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group, was interviewed by Earthwatch, a syndicated program broadcast on public radio stations, about the group's efforts to reduce the number of birds killed by wind turbines. . . . David Deamer, professor emeritus of chemistry and biochemistry and acting chair of biomolecular engineering, was quoted in a Chicago Tribune story about researchers trying to create artificial life in the laboratory, and in a San Jose Mercury News story about the prospects for life on Mars. . . . Economist Lori Kletzer made the front page of the Wall Street Journal in a story about the outsourcing of jobs. . . . Gary Glatzmaier, professor of Earth sciences, was featured in a Philadelphia Inquirer article about unanswered questions in science. Glatzmaier described the mysteries of Earth's magnetic field. . . . Craig Haney of psychology was interviewed by a New York Times Magazine writer about supermax prisons, and a reporter for New York magazine called him to discuss how inmates cope with being in prison for life. . . . History of consciousness professor Angela Davis was profiled in Cleveland’s Call and Post. . . . Surfer magazine ran a news story about Terrie Williams, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, who took some time off from studying marine mammals to look at the physiology of surfing with her physiology classes. Williams recorded the heart-pounding effects of big-wave surfing by putting heart-rate monitors on local surfers, including alumna Sarah Gerhardt, while they rode the giant waves at Mavericks. . . . Erika Zavaleta of environmental studies was quoted in articles in the Albuquerque newspapers about the economics of salt cedar eradication. . . . American studies professor and department chair Tricia Rose was quoted in the Kansas City Star about the influence of pop star Britney Spears. . . . Education Week recently ran two stories on UCSC’s Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence. One focused on the career of CREDE director Roland Tharp, who has spent decades researching classroom strategies that address the needs of students who are most likely to be "left behind." The other article showed how the center’s work is being put into action at Starlight Elementary School, in Watsonville, Calif.
State and regional
Craig Haney of psychology has fielded numerous media inquiries, including calls from the Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, and United Press International about the 20-month lockdown of Latino inmates at Folsom State Prison. Haney was also interviewed by the Los Angeles Times about prison gangs, and he was prominently quoted in a Modesto Bee article about the jurors in the trial of Scott Peterson. . . . The San Francisco Chronicle noted that theater arts professor Mark Franko was the choreographer of Caesura, a March Bay Area production. . . . Articles in the San Jose Mercury News and the Berkeley Daily Planet about touchscreen voting machine software developed by the Open Voting Consortium included quotes from computer scientist Arthur Keller, who helped found the consortium. . . . In a lengthy analysis of the 9/11 commission that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News, Dan Wirls of politics said the commission needs to wrap up its work this summer with a report that goes beyond making merely symbolic recommendations. . . . History of consciousness professor Barbara Epstein and Hebrew lecturer Tammi Rossman-Benjamin were quoted in the San Jose Mercury News and Contra Costa Times about the departure of Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood. . . . Renee Tajima-Peña of community studies penned a column for the San Jose Mercury News about her husband’s quest to piece together his fragmented family, which she documented in the film My Journey Home, which aired on PBS in early April. . . . Shakespeare Santa Cruz artistic director Paul Whitworth was quoted in the San Jose Mercury News about the new 2004 summer season lineup.
Local
Broadcast media picked up the story of an optical glucose sensor developed by chemistry professor Bakthan Singaram: Singaram was interviewed on KSCO Radio, and KSMS TV in Monterey interviewed Singaram, visiting researcher Rich Wessling, and chemistry professor Todd Wipke. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a lengthy profile of filmmaker and community studies prof Renee Tajima-Peña on the eve of the PBS television premiere of two of her films. The San Jose Mercury News also wrote about Tajima-Peña’s work in conjunction with the broadcasts. . . . Sociology’s Ben Crow was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article about new alternatives to traditional publications that have become available to faculty researchers. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel noted that music professor Linda Burman-Hall was a judge in the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival’s second annual Youth Chamber Music Contest held at UCSC. . . . Brian Walton, coordinator of the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group, was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about the group's efforts to reduce the number of birds killed by wind turbines. . . . Music lecturer Mesut Özgen was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article announcing that he and theater arts lecturer Tandy Beal were named artists-in-residence for a second year at the Henry J. Mello Center for the Performing Arts in Watsonville. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about research by Anujan Varma, professor of computer engineering, to develop an optical router for the Internet. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel quoted music professor David Evan Jones in a story describing his recent trip to Asia with music professor Nicole Paiement and music lecturer Brian Staufenbiel to oversee the Korean premiere of his first opera. . . . Robert Klevan, music lecturer and new education director for the Monterey Jazz Festival, was quoted in a Monterey County Herald article about the festival’s 34th annual National High School Jazz Competition. . . . Janet Bryer of the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Foods Systems was featured in Monterey Herald coverage of efforts by Pajaro Valley farmers to reduce water runoff from agricultural lands. . . . Raymie Stata, assistant professor of computer science, was featured in a San Jose Mercury News story about software he developed for managing e-mail (Bloomba from Stata Labs, a company Stata cofounded). . . . Biologist Don Croll was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about springtime changes in Monterey Bay. . . . Gary Griggs, director of the Institute of Marine Sciences, and Mark Carr, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, were quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about a report issued by the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy. . . . Film and digital media professor and department chair Chip Lord was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article about the renovation of the Communications Building, the new headquarters for the Film and Digital Media Department. . . . Barry Sinervo, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, was interviewed by KSBW-TV about the Santa Cruz long-toed salamander, an endangered species discovered on the site of planned construction work at Aptos High School.
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