December 15, 2003
UCSC in the News
Politics professor Michael Urban was interviewed by BBC Radio about the Chechen War and by Radio 101, based in Zagreb, Croatia, about the Putin presidency.
Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood was quoted in a San Jose Mercury
News article about a report from the National Science Board on the
nation's workforce needs in science and engineering.
History professor Dana Frank was quoted in North Carolina’s The News & Observer about how difficult it is today to buy American products.
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A story about comparative genomics in Genomics and Proteomics included a sidebar on the UCSC Genome Browser, with quotes from David Haussler, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and professor of computer science.
Associate professor of film and digital media Shelley Stamp was quoted in the San Francisco Weekly about her $25,000 grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to complete a book about silent film director Lois Weber. An article also appeared in the Register-Pajaronian.
In a story marking the 50th anniversary of the discovery of rapid-eye movement and its link to dreaming, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette quoted psychology’s Bill Domhoff. An accompanying article described Domhoff’s Internet dream bank and his work documenting cross-cultural similarities in dreaming. . . . Speaking of dreams, Men’s Fitness Magazine used psychologist Veronica Tonay’s new book Every Dream Interpreted for an upcoming article about dream interpretation.
A story on high-tech prosthetic devices in the Medical Post featured Wentai Liu, professor of electrical engineering and campus director of the Center for Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems.
Theater arts lecturer Tandy Beal was featured in a Good Times
cover story about The New Nut, her reinvention of The Nutcracker.
Articles also appeared in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Register-Pajaronian,
and Metro Santa Cruz.
The San Francisco Chronicle reviewed Triptych, a new play
by Edna O’Brien, noting that it was "beautifully and sensitively
staged by Shakespeare Santa Cruz artistic director Paul Whitworth."
History of consciousness professor Angela Davis was quoted in
Australia’s Green Left Weekly in an article about her public
lecture at the University of Queensland, where she was attending an international
conference on Women in Prison.
UCSC writing lecturer Tim Fitzmaurice was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article about the death of former UC president Clark Kerr.
