Media Highlights
July 2006
This summary highlights media placements members of the UCSC
community have garnered during the month of July 2006.
National and international
Providing analysis of the Mexican presidential election, Jonathan
Fox of Latin American and Latino studies appeared on the NewsHour
with Jim Lehrer and was interviewed by the San Jose
Mercury News and the National Journal.
. . . The Boston Globe 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. . . . Economist Michael Hutchison was pleased to
see his new book about Japan's economic downturn during the 1990s
featured prominently in an article in The Economist
magazine about Japan's recovery. . . . Brent Haddad of
environmental studies discussed desalination on the nationally
syndicated radio program A World of Possibilities.
. . . Bill Domhoff of psychology was quoted in a Washington
Post article about U.S. society's fascination with conspiracy
theories. Domhoff noted that for all their populist flavor, conspiracy
theories usually end up attributing more power to elites than
they actually have. . . . Seismologist Emily Brodsky was quoted
in stories about her research on earthquakes and groundwater flow
by Scripps Howard News Service, Reuters, ABCNews.com, Space
Daily, Hindustan Times, and Xinhua General News Service,
as well as by Science Letter, Life Science Weekly,
and other newsletters. . . . Economist Rob Fairlie's research
on entrepreneurship continues to generate media interest, including
a recent mention in the New York Times, coverage
in the Colorado Springs Business Journal, and questions
from ABC News about older workers and entrepreneurship.
He was also quoted in the Wilmington News Journal
regarding Delaware's last-place ranking in a recent national review
of entrepreneurial spirit around the country that Fairlie conducted
for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Fairlie also appeared
in the Columbus Dispatch in an article about business
associations that encourage entrepreneurship among immigrants,
noting that such networks have helped fuel the growth in immigrant-owned
businesses. . . . Sociology's Dane Archer was featured in an Albany
Times Union article about social norms and blunders in
public restrooms. . . . In a Dwell magazine cover
story on radical architecture, film and digital media professor
Chip Lord was quoted about the innovative Ant Farm art and architecture
collective he cofounded in 1968. . . . Genomic research by Gill
Bejerano and others in UCSC's Center for Biomolecular Science
and Engineering was covered in Genomics and Genetics Weekly,
Health & Medicine Week, Biotech Week, Science Letter,
and other newsletters. . . . In an article about widespread economic
anxiety in the United States, U.S. News & World Report
honed in on economist Lori Kletzer's proposal for a wage insurance
program. In addition, Kletzer was in Washington, D.C., for a Brookings
Institution event that got some press coverage from U.S. News
Wire and other outlets. . . . Newhouse News Service
interviewed psychology instructor Veronica Tonay for a story about
dreams that appeared in papers around the country, including the
Post-Standard of Syracuse and the Oregonian.
. . . Sociologist Ben Crow was tapped by the Concord
(New Hampshire) Monitor for comment about new water
and electricity systems being developed for the Third World by
Segway inventor Dean Kamen. Crow pointed out the social and political
challenges of the world's water issues that have so far defied
technological "quick fixes." . . . Psychology's Anthony
Pratkanis was quoted in an Associated Press article about
people who rent billboards to deliver messages and make personal
appeals. The practice can be expensive but effective, he said.
. . . Geophysicist Steven Ward has been featured in several episodes
of the History Channel's Mega Disasters series--"West
Coast Tsunami," "East Coast Tsunami," and "Asteroid
Apocalypse." . . . Biologist Daniel Costa's research on fur
seals was covered in the Cape Times (South Africa).
. . . Ellen Moir of the New Teacher Center was interviewed
by Black America Web for a story about the nationwide
shortage of certified teachers. . . . Research on ribozymes by
William Scott, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry,
and graduate student Monika Martick was reported in Medical
Research News. . . . Science and Theology News
ran a story about the new book Quantum Enigma by physicists
Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner. . . . Diverse Issues in
Higher Education noted that the Koret Foundation will
divide $1.25 million in grants to support Jewish Studies programs
at UC Santa Cruz, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and UC Davis.
State and regional
The new major in computer game design received extensive media
coverage--Ira Pohl, professor and chair of computer science, was
interviewed by the San Jose Mercury News,
Santa Cruz Sentinel, TV stations KTVU and KION,
and radio stations KGO, KLIV, KSCO, and KCSN. Stories
also ran on the AP and UPI news wires, in the San
Jose Business Journal, Sacramento Business Journal, San Francisco
Business Times, Washington (D.C.) Business Journal,
and numerous other business journals across the country, as well
as on online news sites such as SiliconValley.com, Monsters
and Critics, and GameSpot. . . . The
author of an editor's note in the Los Angeles Times
turned to Patricia Zavella of Latin American and Latino studies
for insight into the use of the word mojado in an article.
The word, Spanish for "wetback," has increasingly been
adopted by undocumented immigrants as a badge of honor, said Zavella.
. . . An article in the Fresno Bee about peregrine
falcons included quotes from Glenn Stewart of the Santa Cruz Predatory
Bird Research Group.
Local
Michael Brown of politics appeared on KUSP Radio's Talk
of the Bay to discuss Hoover Institution fellow Shelby Steele's
new book, White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed
the Promise of the Civil Rights Era. . . . The Mid-County
Post ran an article about seismologist Emily Brodsky's
research on earthquakes and groundwater flow. . . . Chip Lord
and Margaret Morse, professors of film and digital media, were
quoted in a Metro Santa Cruz article about experimental
art at UCSC. . . . The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a
lengthy Q&A with UCSC's new athletic director, Linda Spradley,
on the front page of the sports section. . . . Farnaz Fatemi of
the Writing Program was featured in an article in the Santa
Cruz Sentinel about a new anthology of writing by Iranian
American women to which she has contributed. . . . The Santa
Cruz Sentinel wrote about the New Teacher Center's latest
local initiative, working with 24 of the area's best teachers
to help them reach the next level of excellence.
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