Media Highlights
April 2006
This summary highlights media placements members of the UCSC
community have garnered during the month of April 2006.
National and international
Articles on global warming from Scientific American
and Inter Press Service News Agency included quotes from James
Zachos and Gary Griggs, both professors of Earth sciences. . .
. Dan Wirls of politics participated in a live discussion on the
Fox News program Hannity & Colmes about student
opposition to the presence of military recruiters at campus job
fairs. . . . The New York Times quoted economist
Rob Fairlie in an article about entrepreneurship among the elderly.
. . . Salon.com quoted a speech by assistant professor
of literature Vilashini Cooppan in an article about how motherhood
affects the careers of women in academia. . . . Research to develop
new biosensor technology led by electrical engineer Holger Schmidt
was covered in Laser Focus World, Nanotechnology
Now, the Santa Cruz Sentinel, and Silicon
Valley Business Journal. . . . History professor Dana
Frank was quoted in a Minneapolis Star Tribune article
about a recent decline in the country's buy American
sentiment, noting that those who still try to buy American are
naive to think that purchasing American products keeps corporations
from taking their operations and jobs overseas. . . . Postdoctoral
researcher Phil Howard of the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable
Food Systems was interviewed live on CNBC recently for
the show Closing Bell. He discussed the growth in sales
of organic food. . . . An article in the International Herald
Tribune about the official time standard included quotes
from Steven Allen, a programmer/analyst for UCO/Lick Observatory.
. . . Research by postdoctoral researcher Myra Finkelstein on
increasing levels of environmental contaminants in albatrosses
was reported by Science Now and Space Daily
online news. Finkelstein was also interviewed on the CBC
Radio program Quirks and Quarks about her research
on albatrosses. . . . David Haussler, professor of biomolecular
engineering, was featured in a Wired magazine story
about his work to reconstruct the genomes of extinct mammalian
ancestors. . . . Craig Haney of psychology was interviewed by
National Public Radio for a story about supermaximum-security
prisons. . . . New Teacher Center director Ellen Moir was
featured in a Waterloo Cedar Falls (Iowa) Courier
article about the center's mentoring program for new teachers.
. . . The Edmonton Journal ran a story about history
of consciousness professor Angela Davis in advance of an appearance
at the University of Alberta, where she delivered a lecture titled
Reforming Race, Class and Gender in the 21st Century.
State and regional
Craig Haney of psychology fielded a call from the Los Angeles
Times about overcrowding in the California prison system.
. . . The Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group and program
manager Glenn Stewart were featured in stories about the peregrine
falcons being monitored via webcam in San Francisco, including
a story on KNTV (Channel 11) and articles in the San Francisco
Chronicle and the Meriden (CT) Record-Journal.
. . . Associate professor of literature Louis Chude-Sokei was
interviewed on KPFA, KPOO, KBLX, and XM Satellite Radio
about his work as organizer and planner/moderator of a daylong
international symposium titled Paris Is Burning Again
at the San Francisco Museum of the African Diaspora. . . . Paul
Ortiz of community studies was interviewed recently on Hard
Knock Radio on KPFA. . . . Economist Rob Fairlie was
interviewed by KION-TV about the digital divide.
Local
Biologist Barry Sinervo was featured in an article in the Santa
Cruz Sentinel about his research on a salamander--possibly
a new species--that lives in the caves on campus. . . . Literature
professor Chris Connery was quoted in a Good Times
feature story about former U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson and his
UCSC visit to headline a teach-in titled the The War on
Terror: A Credible Threat. Metro Santa Cruz
also ran a feature story on the event. Feminist studies professor
Bettina Aptheker and politics professor Daniel Wirls were interviewed
on two KZSC Radio programs about the teach-in. . . . The
Mid-County Post and Sea Technology
ran stories about research on marine mammals by Daniel Costa,
professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and graduate student
Michael Weise. . . . Gary Griggs, professor of Earth sciences,
was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about
mud slides caused by heavy rains. . . . Psychology professor Aida
Hurtado discussed the Chicano/Latino Research Center's programs
during an interview with Community Television of Santa Cruz
County for the program Latinos al Dia. . . . Politics
professor Dan Wirls penned an op-ed for the Santa Cruz Sentinel
that responded to media reports that the Bush administration is
gearing up to attack Iran. . . . The Good Times
noted that music professor David Cope would present a concert
of works he created with the aid of Emmy, a computer
program he invented that generates compositions in the styles
of renowned classical composers. . . . Shakespeare Santa Cruz
and UCSC's student-run theater company BarnStorm received
gold and silver awards respectively in Metro Santa Cruz's
Readers' Choice Goldies Awards. Theater arts lecturer Tandy Beal
also won a silver award for best dance company. . . . Physics
professor Joel Primack and his wife, lecturer Nancy Abrams,
were featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about
their new book on cosmology. . . . Stevenson College provost and
philosophy professor Ellen Suckiel contributed an op-ed piece
to the Santa Cruz Sentinel about the colleges
response to cases of racist graffiti at UCSC. She was also quoted
in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about a campus lecture
on stem cell ethics. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel
ran a story about physicist Michael Dine, who was awarded a Guggenheim
Fellowship.
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