Media Highlights

August 2004

This summary highlights prominent media placements UCSC faculty and staff have garnered during the month of August 2004.

National and international

A television crew from the United Kingdom spent a day at Long Marine Lab in July filming an episode of The Jeff Corwin Experience, a wildlife adventure series on the Discovery Channel. Ms. Blue, the blue whale skeleton on display at the Seymour Center, will be featured in a segment of the show about blue whales in Monterey Bay. . . . An influential paper about the international monetary system by economist Mike Dooley was featured in the Australian Financial Review. . . . Anthropologist Adrienne Zihlman's new research about wild chimpanzee growth rates was covered in Science and Science News. . . . The Oregonian turned to labor economist Lori Kletzer for comment in the final installment of a three-part series on trade schools and job retraining programs. . . . In an article in Black Issues in Higher Education, vice chancellor for student affairs Francisco Hernandez warned that UC needs to be careful making changes in university eligibility requirements to avoid disproportionately impacting disadvantaged students, many of whom are underrepresented minorities. . . . Economist Rob Fairlie was interviewed by National Public Radio for a story on informal lending networks among immigrant business owners. . . . Emeritus professor of linguistics William Shipley was featured in Mother Jones magazine in an article titled "Keepers of a Lost Language" about efforts to preserve the language of Mountain Maidu. . . . Linguistics professor Geoffrey Pullum was quoted in an Orlando Sentinel article, contesting claims that a study recently published in the journal Science shows that dogs can understand language.

State and regional

Stories about the awarding of a Getty campus heritage grant to UCSC appeared in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and the San Jose Mercury News and were sent out on the Associated Press news wire. . . . Film and Digital Media Department chair Chip Lord was interviewed on Talk of the City, a program of Pasadena's KPCC Radio, about his role as cofounder of the historic Ant Farm architectural collective.

Local

Mark Carr, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, was quoted in a story in the San Jose Mercury News about plans to create a network of protected marine reserves along the California coast. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about the new elephant seal sculpture at the Seymour Center, with quotes from center director Julie Heffington and Long Marine Lab manager Steve Davenport. . . . The Monterey County Herald, Salinas Californian, and Watsonville Register-Pajaronian all ran favorable reviews of biologist Terrie Williams's book The Hunter's Breath. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel noted the work of Film and Digital Media professor L. S. Kim in bringing Hollywood film directors Alexander Payne, Justin Lin, and actress Sandra Oh to visit film classes on campus. . . . The Monterey Herald quoted women's studies lecturer Peggy Downes Baskin in an article about women networking to advance their business careers. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel noted that Music Department faculty David Evan Jones, David Cope, Paul Nauert, Hi Kyung Kim, and Karlton Hester will coordinate UCSC's new doctorate program in music composition. The Mid-County Post also featured Jones in a story about the new program. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel printed history professor Jonathan Beecher's commencement speech at Stevenson College in its entirety after observing that his comments prompted a wide range of reactions in the community. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel, Register-Pajaronian, and Monterey Herald quoted Shakespeare Santa Cruz director Paul Whitworth and Theater Arts Department chair Danny Scheie in stories about the new SSC summer season. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel announced the appointment of philosophy professor Ellen Suckiel as provost of Stevenson College.

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