UCSC in the News
January 8, 2007
Linguistics professor Geoffrey Pullum was quoted in
Slate magazine about his take on the political reign
of Turkmenistan's president-for-life, Saparmurat Niyazov, who
recently passed away.
An interview with Acting Chancellor George Blumenthal was the cover story in the January 4 issue of the Santa Cruz Good Times.
Biologist Daniel Costa and his students Samantha
Simmons and Patrick Robinson were featured on FoxNews.com
and LiveScience.com in a story about their research using electronic
tags to study marine mammals and their environment.
Democracy Now, a daily radio and TV news program aired
nationally on over 500 stations, broadcast history of consciousness
professor Angela Davis's keynote address in New Orleans
last month for the event, Amnesty for Prisoners of Katrina:
A Weekend of Reconciliation and Respect for Human Rights.
The Mid-County Post ran a story about statistician David
Draper and his work to improve hospital care for sick newborns.
Literature professor Helene Moglen was quoted in the
Santa Cruz Good Times for a story about Bodies in
the Making, a new book based on a conference presented in
fall 2005 on campus by the Institute for Advanced Feminist Research,
that features essays by 11 UCSC professors.
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