Media Highlights
May 2006
This summary highlights media placements members of the UCSC
community have garnered during the month of May 2006.
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 also 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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