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October 7, 1996

Headliners

"Headliners" highlights recent media coverage involving members of the UCSC community.

It was a busy summer for composer and inventor David Cope. Cope's EMI was featured in Discover magazine's special October issue on creativity, and his new book, Experiments in Musical Intelligence, got column space in the Los Angeles Times. Cope also spoke about EMI with a reporter from the nationally syndicated radio show "Science Update." Beyond EMI, NPR sought Cope's opinion about the effect on young children of different kinds of music, while the BBC sent a crew to spend a day with Cope for a project on Bach. . . .

Two researchers appeared in the news pages of Science this summer: computer scientist David Haussler, a key player in a long article about computational biology, and astronomer Michael Bolte, who spoke at an international forum on recent progress in cosmology. . . .

As the latest O. J. trial was about to open, a San Francisco Examiner reporter spoke with literature's Margo Hendricks for a sense of the larger scope of the story. Hendricks shed light on some of the more universal levels--such as issues of honor and justice--on which the story is taking place. . . .

Psychology lecturer and field study coordinator Veronica Tonay's new book about dreams and creativity continues to get wide coverage, including a lengthy article in the Chicago Tribune that also ran in the Los Angeles Daily News. . . . And psychology professor emeritus Bill Domhoff's work on dreams was the sole subject of an article in the San Francisco Examiner.

The Sentinel and the San Francisco Chronicle turned to anthropologist Alison Galloway for their stories on the remains of a skeleton found in the woods of Felton. . . .

When CNN wanted to learn more about the use of voiceprint technology in legal cases, they asked musicologist Fredric Lieberman to put in a word. . . .

Economist K.C. Fung's analysis of the official trade statistics regarding the trade gap between the U.S. and China was featured in Business Week and the San Francisco Chronicle. . . .

The genetic similarities of pocket gophers and the application of that research to helping wild cheetahs landed graduate students Kevin Crooks and M. A. Sanjayan in the news. Among the placements: Science News, Bioscience, the Monterey County Herald, and the.Sacramento Bee . . . The Bee article included comments from environmental studies professor Marc Mangel. . . .

Jered Lawson, director of Community Supported Agriculture West at the Farm, was quoted at length in a San Jose Mercury News story about subscription farming. . . .

UCSC faculty have appeared on the op-ed pages recently, with Daniel Wirls of politics weighing in on the presidential campaign in the Sentinel and economist John Isbister discussing immigration in the Aptos Times.