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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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