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.