Media Highlights
December 2008
This summary highlights media placements members of the UCSC community have garnered during the month of December 2008.
National and international
The mentoring model developed by the New Teacher Center was featured in coverage by the Times Educational Supplement (U.K.).
The Chicago Tribune quoted professor of literature and history Nathaniel Deutsch for an article about the near extinction of the Mandaeans--one of the world's oldest religious groups.
Economist Rob Fairlie's latest report on the impact of open-immigration policies on the U.S. economy was featured in Business Week Online.
Research by biomolecular engineer Nader Pourmand on the use of magnetic nanotags for detection of cancer biomarkers was reported in Medical News Today, Science Daily, NanotechWire.com, and PhysOrg.com.
The Saipan Tribune of the Northern Mariana Islands noted that linguistics professor Sandra Chung is codirecting a collaborative project to help preserve the endangered Chamorro language.
AsianWeek published a lengthy feature about Renee Tajima-Pena of community studies, focusing on her latest film, Calavera Highway.
Cine Source magazine interviewed Film and Digital Media Department chair Chip Lord for a feature about the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) exhibit The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now--to which Lord contributed a commissioned installation in collaboration with two fellow former members of the legendary Ant Farm art and architecture collective.
Astronomer and telescope designer Jerry Nelson was quoted in a story in New Scientist magazine about the next generation of giant telescopes.
Astronomer Jonathan Fortney was quoted in a Science News article about the first images of extrasolar planets.
Tony Hoffman of psychology won the 2008 Social Psychology Network Action Teaching Award and was featured in the current issue of APA Monitor, published by the American Psychological Association.
Alaska Report ran a story about a talk on endangered mammals that biologist Terrie Williams gave at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.
The New Teacher Center was featured in a news story circulated by Media Newswire about a survey of teacher working conditions in North Carolina.
Research on climate change and ocean chemistry by marine scientists Elizabeth Griffith and Adina Paytan was covered in Science Daily.
State and regional
The Silicon Valley Business Journal ran a Q&A about the UCSC Genome Browser with bioinformatics experts David Haussler and Jim Kent
The San Francisco Chronicle interviewed professor of English and Literature Murray Baumgarten for a story about an exhibition at the Museo ItaloAmericano in San Francisco titled "Il Ghetto: Forging Italian Jewish Identities 1516-1870," noting that he provided academic expertise for the show. . . . And music professor Hi Kyung Kim's new CD, Andrew Imbrie and Hi Kyung Kim: Solos and Duo was lauded in the Datebook section of the Sunday Chronicle.
The Californian published an article about literature alumnus Reyna Grande and her appearance at Hartnell College to share her award-winning novel Across a Hundred Mountains.
CSU Fresno's The Collegian ran a story about history of consciousness professor Barbara Epstein and her new book The Minsk Ghetto 1941-43: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism.
The San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and Inside Bay Area reported that the Jewish Studies Program received a $150,000 grant for a campus project called "Crossing Boundaries and Building Bridges"--a new interdisciplinary series of dialogues, lectures, and conferences.
The Mercury News and Sentinel reported that feminist studies professor Bettina Aptheker was featured in the Fall 2008 issue of Ms. magazine. . . . Both papers ran an article about the Seymour Marine Discovery Center, featuring staffer Katherine Moore, and an article about the UCSC Wind Ensemble performing at New York City's Carnegie Hall in February. . . . Both papers also ran a story about the renewable energy summer program UCSC will host next year, with quotes from electrical engineer Ali Shakouri, who helped create the program.
Local
This month in the Santa Cruz Sentinel:
Daniel Press of environmental studies provided post-election analysis. . . .
Patricia Allen, director of the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, published an op-ed in about hunger and the global food crisis.
. . . Shannon Gleeson of Latin American and Latino studies also published an opinion column, about immigration, workplace raids, and the connection between undocumented workers and the production of cheap goods and services that Americans have come to expect.
Ocean scientist Jonathan Zehr's research on marine microbiology was covered in the Monterey County Herald and Space Daily.