November 11, 1996

Headliners

Elections make news, and UCSC folks helped provide context and commentary for reporters. KSBW-TV tapped Anthony Pratkanis of psychology and Bob Meister of politics for help with their live analysis of election returns. The Santa Cruz County Sentinel also turned to Pratkanis for insight into the campaign-financing woes of local city council candidate Eleanor Eisenberg and the impact of negative campaigning. The Sentinel also covered an election forum held by Michael Brown, Dan Wirls, Ronnie Lipschutz, and Mark Harmon of politics. . . .

The expansion of UCSC's engineering programs, starting next fall with faculty hires in electrical engineering and applied mathematics, received widespread notice in the region. Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood, Executive Vice Chancellor Michael Tanner, and associate dean for engineering Pat Mantey shared interview duties with the San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz County Sentinel, KSCO radio, KCCN-TV and KSBW-TV, and student reporters at UCSC and San Jose State University. The Associated Press, Salinas Californian, and Watsonville Register-Pajaronian all carried reports. . . .

Historian Judy Yung continues to get attention for her award-winning book, Unbound Feet. The book was recently reviewed in the Journal of American History, which called it "a significant contribution to minority ethnic studies.". . .

The San Jose and Silicon Valley Business Journal devoted some ink to Lora Martin's appointment as the first full-time director of the UC MBEST Center at Fort Ord, UCSC's innovative research and technology initiative. The Journal also gave prominent play to physicist Sue Carter's $500,000 fellowship from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.