Media Highlights
June 2006
This summary highlights media placements members of the UCSC
community have garnered during the month of June 2006.
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. . . . Julie Guthman
of community studies was featured in a Science Today
radio news spot produced by UC and broadcast by the CBS network.
She discussed organic farming in California. . . . 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 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 Sentinel article on the annual Santa
Cruz pride rally.
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