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.