Media Highlights
June 2006
This summary highlights media placements members of the UCSC
community have garnered during the month of June 2006. (See document
with media outlets highlighted in
bold.)
National and international
The recent Santa Cruz Center for International Economics
conference with San Francisco Fed President Janet Yellen attracted
top media coverage, including stories by Reuters and Bloomberg
News that appeared in the Washington Post, Sydney Morning Herald,
Taipei Times, Economic Times of India, Buffalo News, the Globe
and Mail in Canada, as well as on the ABC News web site, Australia's
ninemsn.com, FXStreet.com, MarketWatch, and Forbes.com.
. . . Susanne Jonas of Latin American and Latino studies
was interviewed about immigration issues by La Opinion,
one of the largest Spanish-language newspapers in the country.
. . . Research on the origins of Saturn's moon Triton by Craig
Agnor, a researcher in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department,
received ongoing media attention, including stories in the Washington
Post, Duluth News-Tribune, UPI, Space Daily, and Xinhua
News Service. . . . Earth sciences graduate student Alex Hutko
and professor Thorne Lay were featured in stories about
their research on subducted slabs of Earth's crust that ran in
Yahoo News, Fox News online, Space Daily, LiveScience,
Innovations Report, and PhysOrg.com. . . . The Chronicle
of Higher Education quoted Mary-Kay Gamel, professor
of classics and comparative literature, in an article about a
UCLA classics professor's translation of a comedy by the Roman
playwright Plautus. . . . Biologist Barry Sinervo's research
on the evolution of altruism in side-blotched lizards was featured
in an article in Science News magazine; his research was
also covered in Genomics and Genetics Weekly, Science Letter,
Life Science Weekly, and other newsletters. . . . Biologist
Steven Berkeley was interviewed on NPR's All Things
Considered for a story about evolutionary changes in fish
caused by overfishing. . . . Science and Technology News
quoted commentary by Maureen Callanan of psychology in
its coverage of new research about how children learn from their
parents about science and God. . . . Sociologist Ben Crow
was featured in a Concord (New Hampshire) Monitor
article about efforts to bring clean water and power to impoverished
countries. Crow discussed the political will that's necessary
to bring about lasting change. . . . The Miami Herald, Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, and Kansas City Star were among
the newspapers that published articles about research by economist
Rob Fairlie, who ranked the entrepreneurial activity of
individual states and major cities in the United States. PrimeZone
Media Network also covered the story. . . . The Washington
Post published an editorial by Emily Saarman, a graduate
student in the Science Communication Program, on nutrient pollution
in Chesapeake Bay. . . . Physicist Sriram Shastry was quoted
in a story about a theoretical "invisibility cloak"
that ran in Information Week, IT News Australia, and other
online news sites. . . . Research on neurodegenerative disorders
by biochemist Anthony Fink and his coworkers was covered
in Aging and Elder Health Week, Mental Health Business Week,
Health and Medicine Week, Biotech Week, and other newsletters.
. . . Physicist Joel Primack and his wife and coauthor
Nancy Abrams have just returned from a two-month book tour,
during which they did radio interviews on WGN (Chicago), WNYC
(New York), and National Public Radio, as well as the PBS TV talk
show Between the Lines. Their new book, The View from
the Center of the Universe, was chosen for NPR book critic
Alan Cheuse's Summer Reading Selections for 2006 and was featured
on the cover of the literary journal Missouri Review. . . .
India's The Statesman quoted associate professor of
history Dilip Basu in an article about the role of UCSC's
Satyajit Ray Film and Study Collection (Ray FASC) in the search
for Sikkim, a lost documentary made by the renowned Indian
film director. . . . Erik Asphaug, associate professor
of Earth sciences, was interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered,
about a Japanese study of the asteroid Itokawa. Asphaug was also
quoted in stories about the asteroid in the Christian Science
Monitor, New Scientist magazine, and Scientific
American.com. . . . Associate professor of literature and
Cowell provost Tyrus Miller was quoted in Delo,
the main daily paper of Slovenia, following a conference at the
University of Primorska in Koper titled Visual Arts After
Postmodernism. . . . Research on Saturn's moon Enceladus
by Francis Nimmo, assistant professor of Earth sciences,
was covered by CNN.com, Discovery News, Space Daily, Astrobiology
magazine, Agence France Presse, Chinadaily.com,
and the Santa Cruz Sentinel. . . . The Rocky
Mountain News ran a story about Far from the Madding Gerund,
a new book by linguistics professor Geoffrey Pullum and
Mark Liberman of the University of Pennsylvania, featuring some
of the best posts from the blog Language Log. . . . Biologist
James Estes was quoted in a story about California kelp
forest ecosystems in Science News magazine. . . . Pamela
Perry of community studies was tapped by USA Today
for comment on generational differences in matters of race and
ethnicity. The story ran in numerous newspapers, including the
Green Bay Press-Gazette. . . . Donald Potts, professor
of ecology and evolutionary biology, was interviewed by National
Public Radio about the establishment of the Northwestern Hawaiian
Islands National Marine Sanctuary.
State and regional
KQED Radio in San Francisco produced a segment for National Public
Radio's Living on Earth program about the closure of a
power plant near the Bayview Hunter's Point neighborhood. Environmental
justice expert Manuel Pastor of Latin American and Latino
studies was featured in the broadcast. Living on Earth
is broadcast on about 300 NPR stations each week, airing in 9
of the 10 top radio markets and reaching 80 percent of the U.S.
. . . David Haussler, professor of biomolecular engineering,
was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle story about the
evolutionary history of humans and chimps. . . . A Los Angeles
Times travel feature about summer theater advised readers
that redwoods encircle the enchanting Sinsheimer-Stanley
Festival Glen at Shakespeare Santa Cruz's summer
festival at UCSC. . . . The San Jose Mercury News and Santa
Cruz Sentinel ran stories about Costa Spur and Terrie Bluff,
sites in Antarctica named for biologists Daniel Costa and
Terrie Williams. Costa was also interviewed by KION TV
(Ch. 46) about the Antarctic sites. . . . Julie Guthman
of community studies fielded a call from a reporter with California
Connected, a weekly news magazine program produced by four
PBS television stations. Guthman discussed organic agriculture
in California. . . . Emily Brodsky, assistant professor
of Earth sciences, was interviewed by KCBS Radio and KSCN Radio
about her research on earthquake aftershocks, which was also covered
by MSNBC.com, LiveScience, Physics Web, and an Associated
Press story that ran in the San Jose Mercury News, Washington
Post, and other newspapers. . . . The San Jose Mercury
News ran an article on a major donation to UCSC of photographs
by acclaimed American photographer Brett Weston valued at more
than $1 million, quoting Christine Bunting, head of Special
Collections at McHenry Library.
Local
Biologist John Pearse was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel
story about state plans for a network of reserves to protect ocean
habitat. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran two announcements
of the appointment of Georges Van Den Abbeele as new dean
of the Humanities Division. . . . Graduate student Alex Hutko
was featured in a Mid-County Post article about his research
with seismologist Thorne Lay on subducted slabs of the
Earth's crust. In addition, KSBW TV (Channel 8) interviewed Lay
about a minor earthquake that was felt in the Santa Cruz area.
. . . Women's studies professor Bettina Aptheker was quoted
in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article on the annual Santa Cruz
pride rally.
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