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Media Highlights

October 2005

This summary highlights media placements members of the UCSC community have garnered during the month of October 2005.

National and international

Economist Rob Fairlie's work with the Kauffman Foundation on the rate of U.S. entrepreneurship received widespread media coverage, including stories that appeared in USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Education Week, and Contra Costa Times. CNNMoney.com also picked up the story. Fairlie's research on the digital divide was covered by National Journal's "Technology Daily." . . . American studies professor Tricia Rose appeared as a guest on a special broadcast of National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation program about race, poverty, and Hurricane Katrina. . . . Discovery News ran a story about the latest analyses of the Dec. 26 Indian Ocean tsunami, including a report by seismologist Thorne Lay. . . . The New York Times quoted literature professor Richard Terdiman in an article about a new partnership between UC Libraries and technology companies to provide free public access to digitized books. . . . Research on dark matter in elliptical galaxies by physicist Joel Primack, visiting researcher Avishai Dekel, and their collaborators was reported in Science Now, Space Daily, ScienceDaily PhysOrg.com, and Globes Online. . . . Film critic B. Ruby Rich of community studies was quoted in Variety about Brokeback Mountain, a new film about two gay cowboys that's due in theaters in December. Rich's article about the film appeared in The Guardian and was reprinted in the Sydney Morning Herald. She was also interviewed by National Public Radio about Paradise Now, a film by Palestinian filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad. Rich wrote a review of that film for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. . . . The Olympian (Olympia, Washington) ran a story about marine scientist Gregory Rau's research on technology to control carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. . . . The Toronto Star's coverage of a conference about neighborhood revitalization featured comments by participant Manuel Pastor of Latin American and Latino studies. . . . Literature professor Paul Skenazy contributed five brief book reviews to the Washington Post. . . . Sociologist Marcia Millman was interviewed by the Chicago Sun-Times for an article about sisters, the topic of Millman's most recent book. . . . An excerpt from physicist Bruce Schumm's book Deep Down Things was published on the Physics Central web site. . . . New Teacher Center director Ellen Moir's recent national education award was covered by the Chronicle of Higher Education. . . . A story in Science News about earthquake hazards in California included a quote from geophysicist Steven Ward. . . . UCSC Farm manager Jim Leap was contacted by Time magazine for a farm-to-cafeteria story focused on campus farms that supply college cafeterias. . . . Agroecology researcher Phil Howard was quoted in an Alternet.org story about the growing U.S. reliance on imported food.

State and regional

Sociology instructor Mike Males was quoted widely regarding a study about the frequency of fatal drug overdoses among the middle-aged. The story, which first appeared in the Los Angeles Times, was picked up as far away as Korea. . . . History professor Dana Frank was quoted in the Ventura County Star on the ways in which nationalist "Buy American" campaigns can blame working people overseas rather than pinpoint the real problem, corporate-driven free trade agreements. . . . Stephen McCabe, coordinator of research and education at the UCSC Arboretum, was interviewed on The Coastal Gardener television program, broadcast locally on KGO TV. The Arboretum was also mentioned in recent articles in the magazines American Gardener and California Wild. . . . Economist Rob Fairlie's research on the digital divide received broad play on KCBS Radio and was featured in a page-one story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel. . . . The San Jose Mercury News announced that professor of linguistics Geoffrey Pullum was named one of 51 Radcliffe Institute fellows for 2005-06. . . . Biologist Jim Estes was quoted in a San Jose Mercury News story about a recent federal decision changing the management of the California sea otter population. . . . The Contra Costa Times quoted literature professor Richard Terdiman about an announcement that the University of California will provide thousands of public-domain literary texts to a free online archive. . . . Insidebayarea.com interviewed psychology professor Craig Haney for a story about public opinion on the death penalty.

Local

New Teacher Center director Ellen Moir's recent national education award was covered by the Santa Cruz Sentinel. The Sentinel also published an article about Faye Crosby, who recently received a top award in social psychology. . . . Biologist Mark Carr was quoted in a Monterey Herald story about the possibility of developing an oil refinery on the site of the former Fort Ord. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel noted the efforts of theater arts lecturer Don Williams to include children in the Santa Cruz African American community for a Kids on Broadway production of Ragtime. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel and Aptos Times reported on David Haussler, professor of biomolecular engineering, receiving the Dickson Prize in Science. . . . In psychology, Bruce Bridgeman appeared on KZSC Radio's The Sound of Young America, discussing his research on the Mystery Spot. . . . Literature professor and director of the UCSC Institute for Advanced Feminist Research Helene Moglen was quoted in two Santa Cruz Sentinel articles about the institute's conference on body modification. Art professor Joyce Brodsky and Sesnon Gallery director Shelby Graham were also quoted in the Sentinel. The Good Times and City on a Hill Press also ran features on the conference. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel noted that film and digital media professor Eli Hollander and music professor Linda Burman-Hall were screening Kawitan, their documentary film about natives of South Bali, at the Pacific Rim Film Festival. . . . John Pearse, professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology, was quoted in a story about marine biologist Edward F. Ricketts in the Monterey Coast Weekly. . . . A Santa Cruz Sentinel story about the debate over intelligent design included quotes from David Deamer, professor of chemistry and biochemistry. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about composers, noting that the work of the late Lou Harrison is archived at the University Library's Special Collections. . . . Associate professor of history David Anthony was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article about the passing of civil rights icon Rosa Parks. . . . Interim humanities dean Gary Lease was quoted in the Santa Cruz Sentinel in an article about foreign-language instruction at UCSC. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel tapped economists Michael Hutchison and Mike Dooley for comment about Ben Bernanke, President Bush's choice to succeed Alan Greenspan as chair of the Federal Reserve Board. . . . Kip Telléz of education was featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article about Teach for America.

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