Media Highlights

May 2006

This summary highlights media placements members of the UCSC community have garnered during the month of May 2006. (See document with media outlets highlighted in bold.)

National and international

Julie Guthman of community studies hit the media jackpot when her work was featured in a New Yorker magazine article about organic agriculture. . . . Research by economist Michael Hutchison and Ilan Neuberger (Ph.D. international economics, '00) was featured in a New York Times article about developing nations that guard against financial crises by accumulating large foreign currency reserves. . . . Astrophysicist Stan Woosley was quoted in articles about gamma-ray bursts in New Scientist magazine and on Space.com. . . . The New York Times quoted linguistics professor Geoffrey Pullum in a story about a debate over the nature of language, prompted by a study of starlings that was reported in a recent issue of Nature. . . . Craig Agnor, a researcher in the Earth Sciences Department, received considerable media attention for explaining the origins of Saturn's moon Triton, including an interview on KSBW TV and stories in New Scientist magazine, the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Lexington Herald-Leader, Register (U.K.), Space.com, Universe Today, Physics Web, and Science Now. . . . The Chronicle of Higher Education ran an interview with history professor Dana Frank about her new book Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America. . . . Ellen Moir, director of the New Teacher Center, was featured in an article in the Times Educational Supplement about her visit to Scotland, where she was invited to brief leaders of education about the center's cutting-edge work in teacher training and leadership. And the New Teacher Center got a nice nod on the civilrights.org web site, which ran a story about the center's work with New York City schools. KCBS TV also covered the New Teacher Center's latest grant for work with the Ravenswood City School District in East Palo Alto. . . . Physicist Michael Dine was quoted in a story in Science magazine about controversial results from a physics experiment. . . . Indian Life & Style, a leading Indian American magazine distributed in the United States and India, published an extensive feature story on assistant professor of music Dard Neuman and his role as UCSC's first-ever endowed chairholder in classical Indian music. . . . Economist Yin-Wong Cheung got the last word--literally--in a U.S. News & World Report article about currency trading, likening individual traders to boxers with "one hand tied behind their back." . . . National Public Radio picked up news about a report that addresses the "second disaster" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, including environmental justice issues. The report was coauthored by Manuel Pastor of Latin American and Latino studies and issued by the Russell Sage Foundation. . . . Economics professor Michael Dooley was featured in an article in The Economist magazine about the International Monetary Fund. . . . Campus veterinarian David Casper was interviewed by a camera crew working on a documentary about gray whales for the National Geographic Channel. . . . Paul Ortiz of community studies did an interview with the Associated Press about the battle between farmworkers and McDonald's over workers' wages. . . . Biologist Barry Sinervo spent a day in the field with David Attenborough and a BBC TV crew for an episode of a forthcoming documentary series on reptiles. Sinervo's research on side-blotched lizards was also covered in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Metro Santa Cruz, and Innovations Report. . . . Psychology's Craig Haney has been in demand lately, fielding calls from National Public Radio on the psychological effects of supermax prisons and from Salon.com on the nature of death penalty decision making by juries. . . . Bill Domhoff, research professor of psychology and sociology, featured prominently in a major story in U.S. News & World Report about dreams. The article referred to Domhoff's database of 16,000 dreams that facilitates his work. He was also quoted about the Bohemian Grove in a recent New Yorker article. . . . An article in Science News about timekeeping standards included quotes from Steven Allen, a programmer/analyst for UCO/Lick Observatory. . . . The Boston Globe quoted emeritus professor of history John Dizikes throughout a story about a local troupe's production of the opera Carmen. (Dizikes is the author of the book Opera in America.) . . . The Capital Times ran a story on history of consciousness professor Angela Davis's talk at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she noted that the U.S. is promoting strategies of incarceration based on torture in Iraq, Afghanistan, and in secret CIA prisons. .. . . The Associated Press picked up an article by the Santa Cruz Sentinel about the organic food program at UCSC, quoting recent graduate and part-time staffer Tim Galarneau. . . . Journalism lecturer Conn Hallinan contributed a piece to South Asia Times online about the growing chasm in India between poor and wealthy families. . . . ABC News featured photographs from the Philip Hyde archive at McHenry Library's Special Collections for a segment of the program This Week, hosted by George Stephanopoulos, in honor of the late photographer's impact on the environmental movement. Special Collections also provided images from the Hyde archive for obituaries in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, and retired University Librarian Allan Dyson was quoted in obituaries in the L.A. Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Monterey County Herald, Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, Salt Lake City's Deseret Morning News, Indiana's Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, and South Carolina's The State.

State and regional

The Los Angeles Times featured Brent Haddad of environmental studies in a story about water reclamation, which prompted a lengthy interview on the same topic on the Los Angeles public radio program Which Way LA. . . . The Sunday "Datebook" section of the San Francisco Chronicle ran a photo of a mixed-media painting by art lecturer Don Fritz, noting it was on exhibit in Mountain View. . . . A comment about prison conditions from psychology's Craig Haney in the Los Angeles Times prompted a letter to the editor from a reader. . . . The San Jose Mercury News quoted assistant professor of theater arts Patty Gallagher in an article about actor/comedian Martin Short and his new one-man show Fame Becomes Me. . . . Orin Martin of the Alan Chadwick Garden was featured in a lengthy San Francisco Chronicle article about the benefits of planting vertical rows on slopes. . . . In a Sunday "Datebook" article about summer Shakespeare festivals, the San Francisco Chronicle noted that Shakespeare Santa Cruz will be presenting King Lear.

Local

A front-page story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel on stem cell research featured biologists David Feldheim and Manny Ares, as well as quotes from Chancellor Denice Denton and Ann Pace, assistant director of the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering. . . . Metro Santa Cruz published an extensive cover story about UCSC's new digital arts and new media graduate program, quoting assistant theater arts professor Ted Warburton, assistant computer science professor James Davis, assistant professor of art Ed Osborn, and assistant film and digital media professor Warren Sack. Osborn was also quoted in a Santa Cruz Good Times feature story about the Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) graduate program. DANM program coordinator Felicia Rice was quoted in the story as well. . . . An article on California sea otters in the Mid-County Post included quotes from biologist Jim Estes. . . . The Santa Cruz Good Times ran a cover story about a new artist-in-residence program in Santa Cruz that is being spearheaded by assistant professor of art Dee Hibbert-Jones and the public art installation she initiated with UCSC students at the city landfill. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel gave nice coverage to the recent visit of novelist Sandra Cisneros, which was sponsored by the Chicana/o Latina/o Research Center under the leadership of psychology professor Aida Hurtado. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel noted that University Librarian Virginia Steel briefed the Friends of the UC Santa Cruz Library about the progress of the McHenry Library expansion project at a fundraiser that netted $15,000 toward a new reading room. . . . Sean Swezey of the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article about a new strategy to control lygus bugs, which ravage strawberries. . . . Biology student Milara Gatcke was featured in the Santa Cruz Sentinel's "Namedropping" column as the recipient of the $5,000 regional Soroptimist International Women's Opportunity Award. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel announced a gift of $75,000 from a consortium of donors to fund Hindi/Urdu language classes at UCSC, initiated by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs Kamil and Talat Hasan.

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