Media Highlights

March 2007

This summary highlights media placements members of the UCSC community have garnered during the month of March 2007. (See media outlets highlighted in bold.)

National and international

Astronomer Sandra Faber and postdoctoral researcher Susan Kassin were featured in coverage of the AEGIS galaxy survey on CBC Radio and in USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, Science News, UPI, Space Daily, SpaceRef, Space.com, Slashdot, Innovations Report, CCN Magazine, and Earthtimes.org. . . . Economist Lori Kletzer was interviewed by the New York Times about wage insurance. . . . The Korea Herald cited music professors Hi Kyung Kim and David Cope in an article about how Western composers are reviving Korean music by developing new repertoires for the "gayageum," an 1,800-year-old, 12-stringed, traditional Korean instrument. . . . The Chronicle of Higher Education picked up on a paper by psychology's Jean Fox Tree about the use of the word "like" in conversation. Rather than a bad habit, the word "like" is used "at particular times and for particular reasons" and can function as an integral part of conversation, according to Fox Tree, whose findings appeared in the journal Discourse Studies. . . . Research by biochemists William Scott and Michael Robertson on the structure of an RNA enzyme was covered by Science Daily, Biology News Net, PhysOrg.com, Chemistry World, Astrobiology News, and Space Ref. . . . The New York Times quoted assistant professor of film and digital media L. S. Kim in an article about the lack of Asian American pop stars. . . . Anthropologist Adrienne Zihlman's comments about new research that proves that chimpanzees make weapons and kill prey received further distribution, appearing in Science News, the Los Angeles Times, the Scotsman, as well as in papers in Arizona, Texas, and elsewhere. . . . Biologist David Feldheim was quoted in an article in the journal Nature about stem cell research grants. . . . Associate professor of music Karlton Hester appeared on WCPN (Cleveland) and KPOO (San Francisco) radio programs to discuss his book Bigotry and the Afrocentric ‘Jazz’ Evolution. . . . An article about supercomputers on CNN.com included quotes from Joel Primack, professor of physics. . . . IEEE Spectrum magazine ran a story about astronomer Gregory Laughlin's project to involve amateur astronomers in the hunt for new planets.

State and regional

David Lackner, director of the affiliates program for the Bio-Info-Nano R&D Institute (BIN-RDI), was interviewed on KLIV (San Jose) and KSCO Radio and quoted in a San Jose Mercury News story about the institute, which was also covered in the San Francisco Chronicle, Nanotechnology News, Nanotechwire.com, and SiliconValley.com. . . . Associate professor of literature Louis Chude-Sokei contributed an article to the editorial pages of the Los Angeles Times about the recent controversy over the racial identity of Barack Obama. . . . Geologist Gary Griggs was quoted in an article in the San Jose Mercury News about plans for a seawall in the Pleasure Point area. . . . The San Luis Obispo Tribune covered a Women's History Month celebration keynote address by history of consciousness professor Angela Davis at Cal Poly, where she spoke of the need for collaborative community approaches to solving issues such as violence against women. . . . The Ventura County Star and Santa Cruz Sentinel ran articles about alumnus Wayne Horvitz, noting that the individual major he created at UCSC, “Composition for New Music Improvisation,” is an apt description of his professional career. . . . The San Francisco Chronicle announced the new Shakespeare Santa Cruz summer season, quoting artistic director and professor of theater arts Paul Whitworth.

Local

Computer engineer Jose Renau was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about the Sun OpenSPARC Center of Excellence at UCSC. . . . Astronomer Greg Laughlin was interviewed on KUSP Radio's Talk of the Bay program about his research on extrasolar planets, and was also interviewed by a TV crew from the syndicated program Discoveries & Breakthroughs Inside Science. . . . Computer scientist Arthur Keller and graduate student John Connors were featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about a campus symposium on electric vehicles. . . . Biologist Tim Tinker was quoted in a Monterey County Weekly story about California sea otters. . . . A Santa Cruz Sentinel story about red-legged frogs included quotes from biology graduate student Antonia D'Amore. . . . An article in the Monterey County Weekly about threats to marine mammals on the Central Coast included quotes from biologist Daniel Costa. . . . The Santa Cruz Good Times ran an article describing how Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley did research for her new Hollywood novel by sitting in on a UCSC class titled Working in TV and Film, taught by alumnus and UC Santa Cruz Foundation trustee Loren Steck.

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