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