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Media Highlights

August 2007

This summary highlights media placements members of the UCSC community have garnered during the month of August 2007.

National and international

Computer scientist Luca de Alfaro developed a program to color-code Wikipedia entries for reliability that received coverage in the in the London Times, Jerusalem Post, Chronicle of Higher Education, San Francisco Chronicle, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Monterey County Herald, the German magazine Spiegel, and the web sites Boing Boing and Dr. Dobb's Journal.

The Chronicle of Higher Education is the latest publication to write about professor emeritus Elliot Aronson's new book, Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me).

New Teacher Center director Ellen Moir was featured in an article about Scotland's educational system that appeared in The Times Educational Supplement, Britain's leading education publication. And the New Teacher Center's partnership with Durham Public Schools in North Carolina was featured in Medill Reports, a publication of Northwestern University.

Postdoctoral researcher Kena Fox-Dobbs is featured in a two-part National Geographic TV special, "Prehistoric Predators," about the dire wolf and sabertooth cat.

Physicist Abe Seiden was quoted in a Chicago Tribune article about plans for a new particle accelerator at Fermilab.

Biochemist David Deamer was quoted in an AP story about artificial life that ran in the Halifax Herald (Canada) and in an article about the origins of life on LiveScience.com.

The Grand Rapids Press ran a story about the pervasiveness of pornography that quoted psychology's Eileen Zurbriggen.

Assistant dean of the arts Keith Muscutt was quoted in a Louisville Courier-Journal story about the discovery by Peruvian archeologists of the earliest documented gunshot victim in the Americas.

Economist Rob Fairlie's work on entrepreneurship was cited in an Indianapolis Business Journal article about the number of young people who want to work for themselves.

New Scientist magazine quoted physicist Jason Nielsen in an article in about possible observations of the hypothetical subatomic particle known as the "Higgs boson" and in another article quoted astrophysicist Stan Woosley about a spectacular supernova.

An interview with politics professor Michael Urban about how the outcome of the presidential election might impact Russia was reproduced in the press extracts of What the Papers Say Part B.

Biologist Daniel Costa was featured in a story in Technology Review magazine about researchers using seals to gather data on the oceans and climate change. And Cosmos magazine featured Costa and fellow biologist Scott Shaffer article about high-tech animal tracking.

The Albuquerque Journal ran a story on a new book by Humanities Division lecturer Emily Abbink about the history of Santa Fe's nearly 400-year-old seat of government.

Psychology's Bill Domhoff fielded a call from Real Simple magazine for an upcoming article about dreams.

State and regional

Campus veterinarian Dave Casper was quoted in a story in the San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel about dead juvenile salmon sharks washing up on local beaches and in a Napa Register story about harbor porpoises in the Napa River.

Assistant professor of theater arts and design Brandin Baron-Nusbaum was featured in a Contra Costa Times article about how current fashion trends date back historically hundreds of years.

Local

Astronomer Constance Rockosi spoke to KGO Radio about Google Sky, a new program for astronomy buffs, and was joined by fellow astronomers Garth Illingworth and Xavier Prochaska to discuss the program on KSBW-TV News.

This month in the Santa Cruz Sentinel:
The paper reported on a new book by assistant professor of American studies Renya Ramirez, titled Native Hubs: Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond, about how urban Native Americans, who travel back and forth from city to reservation, can strengthen their culture and identity. . . Don Rothman, senior writing lecturer and founding director of UCSC’s Central California Writing Project, contributed an op-ed about the value of Shakespeare and the presence of Shakespeare Santa Cruz in the community.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel, Monterey County Herald, and San Jose Mercury News ran feature articles on Shakespeare Santa Cruz (SSC), quoting managing director Marcus Cato and artistic director/theater arts professor Paul Whitworth.

See UCSC names highlighted in bold.

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