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Media Highlights

November 2005

This summary highlights media placements members of the UCSC community have garnered during the month of November 2005. (See document with media outlets highlighted in bold.)

National and international

An opinion piece by biologist Terrie Williams on the Endangered Species Act, sea otters, and the value of wildlife ran in USA Today. . . . Sociology's Mike Males appeared on CNN's NewsNight with Aaron Brown to discuss new research on the findings regarding the drug habits of baby boomers. Males was also quoted by the Indo-Asian News Service, which picked up the story. . . . India West and the international weekly newspaper India Abroad ran feature storis on assistant professor of music Dard Neuman, holder of the Kamil and Talat Hasan Endowed Chair in Classical Indian Music, detailing his plans for promoting Indian music and culture at UCSC. . . . Research by geophysicist Steven Ward was cited in an article about tsunamis in New Scientist magazine. . . . Economist Robert Fairlie was quoted in a Houston Chronicle story about Latino business startups. . . . Astronomer Sandra Faber and physicist Joel Primack were featured in a story about cosmology and religion in Science & Spirit magazine. . . . The Deseret Morning News noted that history of consciousness professor Angela Davis would be speaking at a philosophy conference in Salt Lake City. . . . An Associated Press story deconstructing the withdrawal of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers quoted politics professor Dan Wirls. . . . Research on the source of lead contamination in chocolate by environmental toxicologists Charley Rankin, Russell Flegal, and others was covered in Science News magazine and the Chicago Tribune. . . . Michael Riordan, adjunct professor of physics, was quoted in a story in the Newark Star-Ledger about the history and future of Bell Labs. . . . Time magazine interviewed a number of people on campus for its story about the nationwide student movement to help preserve family farming by serving locally grown food in campus dining halls. . . . An article in New Scientist magazine about a NASA proposal for how to deflect an Earth-bound asteroid included a quote from Erik Asphaug, associate professor of Earth sciences. . . . National Public Radio interviewed film expert B. Ruby Rich of community studies about the new Palestinian movie Paradise Now, which explores the motives of suicide bombers. . . . A story on Physorg.com about research on Archaea (a type of microorganism) featured Todd Lowe, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering, and Chad Saltikov, assistant professor of environmental toxicology. . . . Oregon's Register-Guard noted that soprano Maria Jette tracked down UCSC music lecturer Irene Herrmann, the executrix of author/composer Paul Bowles's musical estate, in search of rare material to perform in concert. . . . Physicist Robert Johnson was quoted in a story on Space Daily about the detector his group built for NASA's GLAST telescope. . . . James Zachos, professor of Earth sciences, was featured in a story on Mongabay.com about an episode of extreme climate change 55 million years ago.

State and regional

Lisa Sloan, professor of Earth sciences, and postdoctoral researcher Lara Kueppers were interviewed about their research on the effects of climate change on California's oak woodlands by KPIX TV, KQED Radio, and KGO Radio, as well as the Santa Cruz Sentinel and San Jose Mercury News. AP and UPI wire stories about their work ran on numerous web sites, including the San Diego Union-Tribune, News Factor Network, Top Tech News, Monsters and Critics, and others. . . . Assistant professor of theater arts Patty Gallagher was quoted in a San Jose Mercury News article about a new Cirque du Soleil show that pays homage to clowns.

Local

The Santa Cruz Sentinel announced that literature lecturer Charles Atkinson has been awarded a $1,000 prize as winner of The Sow's Ear Poetry Review annual chapbook competition. . . . A new partnership between UCSC and Los Alamos National Laboratory was covered in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and Salinas Californian, with quotes from computer scientist Darrell Long. . . . The Register-Pajaronian covered a visit by Harvard physicist Lisa Randall to Watsonville High School, sponsored by Arts & Lectures, to help celebrate the investiture of Chancellor Denton. . . . The Register-Pajaronian ran a story on the $195,452 grant awarded to professor of English and comparative literature Murray Baumgarten from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund a summer institute for college and university teachers in Venice, Italy. City on a Hill interviewed Baumgarten for a story about the grant. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a feature story on Todd Newberry, professor emeritus of biology, and his new book, The Ardent Birder. . . . Geologist Gary Griggs was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about his new book on the coastal geology of California, which was also featured in the Monterey Herald. Griggs was also quoted in a Sentinel story about renewed funding for the Center for Integrated Marine Technologies. . . . A Santa Cruz Sentinel story about the endangered Santa Cruz long-toed salamander included quotes from biology graduate student Antonia D'Amore. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel praised the “unique and unexpected pleasures” of the student productions presented by the Theater Arts Department in an article about a recent UCSC theater performance.

 

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