Glenn Stewart’s hands-on experience--he
helped bring the world’s fastest bird back from the brink of
extinction and reintroduced the bald eagle to Big Sur--makes him
an effective ambassador for UCSC's Predatory Bird Research Group.
As his tame peregrine, Sophie, mesmerizes crowds of visitors, Stewart
describes the devastation caused by the widespread use of the pesticide
DDT. [More]
What do such words as democracy, patriotism, and
family really mean? Different things, apparently, depending on your
political affiliation. A new book, Shock and Awe: War on Words,
explores the political meaning of words through essays, photographs,
poems, and drawings by nearly 80 scholars, artists, and poets from
UCSC and around the world. [More]
