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Media Highlights

December 2003

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

International

Economist Ken Kletzer fielded a call from Latin Finance Magazine about collective action clauses. . . . Politics professor Michael Urban was interviewed by BBC Radio about the Chechen War and by Radio 101, based in Zagreb, Croatia, about the Putin presidency. . . . Economist Michael Dooley’s analysis of the $500 billion U.S. deficit was covered by The Economist magazine and discussed on the EIU RiskWire. . . . History of consciousness professor Angela Davis was quoted in Australia’s Green Left Weekly in an article about her public lecture at the University of Queensland, where she was attending an international conference on women in prison.

National

The New York Times tapped Susanne Jonas of Latin American and Latino studies for a story about the long-term costs of U.S.-led coups in Guatemala and Iran in the early 1950s, and the story ran in Salt Lake City’s Deseret News. Jonas, who delivered a keynote speech during a November conference on "Thwarting Democracy in Iran and Guatemala: What Have We Learned Fifty Years After the U.S.-Sponsored Coups," was also interviewed about Guatemalan politics by Chicago Public Radio. . . . Stories continue to appear about a new study coauthored by Jim Estes, adjunct professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, suggesting that the whaling industry has had dramatic long-term effects on ocean ecosystems. Estes was most recently quoted in an Associated Press story that appeared in the Washington Post and Newsday. . . . Jim Kent, a research scientist at the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE), was quoted in a story about human genome data in Wired Online. Kent and CBSE director David Haussler were also featured in a story in the Fort Collins Coloradan about a pair of lectures Haussler gave recently at Colorado State University. . . . Don Brenneis discussed the field of anthropology with the Chicago Tribune during the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting recently. . . . Literature professor Paul Skenazy contributed several book reviews to the Washington Post. . . . The Kansas City Star cited history of consciousness professor Angela Davis in an article about prison industries. . . . UCSC and Long Marine Lab figure prominently in an article in the December issue of Discover magazine about alumnus Ted Cranford. Cranford earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees here studying marine mammals with the late Kenneth Norris, who is also featured in the story. The article--by another UCSC alum, science writer Shannon Brownlee--details Cranford's investigations of the anatomy and astonishing noise-making capacity of sperm whales. Cranford is now an adjunct professor at San Diego State University. . . . Hispanic Outlook magazine quoted Francisco Hernandez, executive director of the UC College Prep Initiative, in an article about online education. . . . An in-depth interview with sociologist Mike Males, who specializes in issues of youth, was featured on DRCNet, the online home of the Drug Reform Coordination Network. . . . Maggie Fusari, director of the UCSC Natural Reserves, was quoted in a story in the Christian Science Monitor about squatters who live on public lands. . . . Forensic anthropologist Alison Galloway was quoted in Newsday about the research value of the University of Tennessee’s extensive collection of human skeletons. . . . History professor Dana Frank was quoted in North Carolina’s The News & Observer about how difficult it is today to buy American products. . . . A story about comparative genomics in Genomics and Proteomics included a sidebar on the UCSC Genome Browser, with quotes from David Haussler, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and professor of computer science. . . . A story on high-tech prosthetic devices in the Medical Post featured Wentai Liu, professor of electrical engineering and campus director of the Center for Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems. . . . In a story marking the 50th anniversary of the discovery of rapid-eye movement and its link to dreaming, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette quoted psychology’s Bill Domhoff. An accompanying article described Domhoff’s Internet dream bank and his work documenting cross-cultural similarities in dreaming. . . . Speaking of dreams, Men’s Fitness Magazine used psychologist Veronica Tonay’s new book Every Dream Interpreted for an upcoming article about dream interpretation.

State and regional

Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood was quoted in a San Jose Mercury News article about a report from the National Science Board on the nation's workforce needs in science and engineering. . . . A Los Angeles Times story about the maturing field of environmental studies quoted UCSC prof Daniel Press. . . . A story in the Los Angeles Times about threatened foxes on Santa Cruz Island and golden eagles that are preying on them includes comments from Brian Latta of the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group. The story also ran on the AP wire service and appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Palm Springs Desert Sun, and other papers. . . . A front-page story in the San Jose Mercury News described the annual illumination of "Ms. Blue," Long Marine Lab's blue whale skeleton, which gets decked with Christmas lights for the holiday season. Jeannie Humphrey, manager of the Seymour Center's Ocean Discovery Shop, is featured in the article. . . . Associate professor of film and digital media Shelley Stamp was quoted in the San Francisco Weekly about her $25,000 grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to complete a book about silent film director Lois Weber. An article also appeared in the Watsonville Register-Pajaronian. . . . The San Francisco Chronicle reviewed Triptych, a new play by Edna O’Brien, noting that it was "beautifully and sensitively staged by Shakespeare Santa Cruz artistic director Paul Whitworth."

Local

Women’s studies lecturer Peggy Downes Baskin was quoted in a Salinas Californian article after being named Outstanding Philanthropist of the Year, along with her husband, Jack Baskin, by the Monterey Bay chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. . . . Politics professor Ronnie Gruhn was a guest on KUSP Radio's Talk of the Bay program, speaking with alumna host Deanna Zachary about President Bush’s claims about the growth of democracy and economic development around the globe. . . . Another study that keeps getting press attention is geophysicist Steven Ward's description of the tsunami that would be generated by an asteroid crashing into the ocean, most recently covered in the Santa Cruz Sentinel. . . . Brent Haddad of environmental studies was tapped for his water expertise by the Monterey County Herald, which covered an idea to recover water from the oil fields of southern Monterey County. . . . Associate professor of literature Christopher Connery was cited in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article about a new UCSC program he designed to send humanities graduate students into local schools. . . . Manuel Pastor was featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about the high cost of living on the Central Coast. . . . Professor of computer engineering Kevin Karplus was quoted in the Santa Cruz Sentinel in a story about the new graduate degrees in bioinformatics now offered at UCSC. . . . An article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel about caves and cave exploring in the Santa Cruz area featured Greg Stock, an Earth sciences graduate student and cave expert. . . . Music professor Leta Miller was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article about the Ariose Singers, a 16-member a cappella group that she directs. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about Ken Bruland, professor and chair of ocean sciences, and his appointment to the Ida Benson Lynn Chair in Ocean Health. . . . Theater arts lecturer Tandy Beal was featured in a Good Times cover story about The New Nut, her reinvention of The Nutcracker. Articles also appeared in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Register-Pajaronian, and Metro Santa Cruz. . . . UCSC writing lecturer Tim Fitzmaurice was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article about the death of former UC president Clark Kerr.

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