UCSC in the News
May 8, 2006
Research by economist Michael Hutchison and Ilan
Neuberger (Ph.D. international economics, '00) was featured
in a New York Times article about developing nations
that guard against financial crises by accumulating large foreign
currency reserves.
A comment about prison conditions from psychology's Craig
Haney in the Los Angeles Times prompted a letter
to the editor from a reader.
National Public Radio picked up news about a report that addresses
the "second disaster" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina,
including environmental justice issues. The report was coauthored
by Manuel Pastor of Latin American and Latino studies
and issued by the Russell Sage Foundation.
Astrophysicist Stan Woosley was quoted in an article
about gamma-ray bursts on Space.com.
Indian Life & Style, a leading Indian American magazine
distributed in the United States and India, published an extensive
feature story on assistant professor of music Dard Neuman
and his role as UCSC's first-ever endowed chairholder in classical
Indian music.
Bill Domhoff of psychology and sociology was quoted
about the Bohemian Grove in a recent New Yorker article.
An article in Science News about timekeeping standards
included quotes from Steven Allen, a programmer/analyst
for UCO/Lick Observatory.
Retired University Librarian Allan Dyson was quoted
in obituaries for photographer Philip Hyde in the Philadelphia
Inquirer, Monterey County Herald, Wyoming Tribune-Eagle,
Salt Lake City's Deseret Morning News, Indiana's Fort
Wayne Journal-Gazette, and South Carolina's The State.
(Hyde's archive resides in UCSC's Special Collections.)
The Sunday "Datebook" section of the San Francisco Chronicle
ran a photo of a mixed-media painting by art lecturer Don
Fritz, noting it was on exhibit in Mountain View.
The Boston Globe quoted emeritus professor of history
John Dizikes throughout a story about a local troupe's
production of the opera Carmen. (Dizikes is the author
of the book Opera in America.)
The Capital Times ran a story on history of consciousness
professor Angela Davis's talk at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
where she noted that the U.S. is promoting strategies of incarceration
based on torture in Iraq, Afghanistan, and in secret CIA prisons.
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