March 8, 2004
UCSC in the News
Economist Lori Kletzer’s proposal to offer wage insurance to displaced workers continues to get high-profile media coverage, most recently in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and National Journal.
A story in New Scientist magazine about new findings that shed light on the first moments after the Big Bang included quotes from astronomer Piero Madau.
Assistant professor of film and digital media L. S. Kim was a featured guest on National Public Radio’s On Point program to discuss the cultural impact of HBO’s television series Sex and the City.
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Mike Males of sociology was quoted in the Las Vegas Review-Journal about new findings regarding adolescent brain development.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a news item about Peggy Delaney,
professor of ocean sciences, who was elected a fellow of the American
Geophysical Union. Delaney was also quoted in a story in the Kansas
City Star and other Knight-Ridder newspapers about plans for the Integrated
Ocean Drilling Program.
The Allentown Morning Call covered a speech by history of consciousness professor Angela Davis at Pennsylvania’s Lehigh University, where she called the U.S. prison system an outmoded form of punishment and urged that it be replaced by a multifaceted approach to rehabilitation.
Donald Potts, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, was quoted in an article in Nature magazine about surprising new findings regarding the relationships among corals of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
Ronnie Gruhn of politics discussed events in Haiti on the Democracy
Now radio program.
Math professor Richard Montgomery collaborated with Stanford researchers
on a study covered by National Public Radio and Science News--a
mathematical analysis suggesting that a coin toss is inherently biased.
Darrell Long, professor of computer science, was quoted in news
stories in the Santa Fe New Mexican, Albuquerque Journal, and Associated
Press news wires about problems with a supercomputer at the Los Alamos
National Laboratory. Long worked on an expert review of the Department
of Energy's national supercomputing program.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel and Metro Santa Cruz ran feature articles about music lecturer Mesut Ozgen’s multimedia project New Dimensions in Classical Guitar, describing his collaboration with assistant film and digital media professor Gustavo Vazquez, music lecturer Peter Elsea, and assistant theater arts professor David Cuthbert.
Arboretum director Dan Harder was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about flowering plum trees heralding the approach of spring in Santa Cruz.
Erika Zavaleta of environmental studies was profiled in the spring edition of Nature Conservancy, as part of a feature on leading conservation scientists.
