UCSC in the News is a weekly column summarizing prominent media placements UCSC faculty, staff, and students have received.
Research by economist Rob Fairlie about immigrant and native-born children attending private schools was cited in an editorial in the New York Times.
Economist Lori Kletzer was quoted in a Congressional Quarterly Weekly article about churning and upheaval in the U.S. labor market.
Several UCSC astronomers were featured in an article in Science News magazine about new models of galaxy formation, including Piero Madau, Sandra Faber, and Jason Prochaska.
Collaborative research by anthropology's Judith Habicht-Mauche and environmental toxicology's Russ Flegal was the subject of a feature story in American Archaeology magazine. Habicht-Mauche, who studies the pottery of the Rio Grande region, has teamed up with Flegal to trace the origins of lead ore used in ceramic glazes that go back to the 1400s.
Physicist Anthony Aguirre was quoted in an article about speculative models of "bubble universes" in New Scientist magazine.
Molecular biologist Sofie Salama was featured in a Science News article about the role of RNA molecules in the development of the human brain.
Research on the geology of the Tibetan Plateau by Xixi Zhao, Peter Lippert, Robert Coe, and their collaborators was covered by Science Daily, Space Daily, Thaindian, Indo-Asian News Service, and UPI (see Currents story).
The Santa Cruz Sentinel reported that John Mock, UCSC lecturer in Hindi and Urdu languages, has launched a campaign to fund the removal of landmines in Afghanistan via the mountaineering community (see Currents story.)
Arboretum director Daniel Harder, still in the media spotlight since weighing in on state plans to eradicate the light brown apple moth, was quoted in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Salinas Californian, and Monterey County Herald.
The International Herald Tribune ran the recent New York Times story about an author's hoax that was revealed by her sister. The article quoted sociologist Marcia Millman.
The Connecticut Post noted that professor of Italian and comparative literature Deanna Shemek was part of an interdisciplinary panel of nationally recognized scholars of ancient Italian culture who participated in a symposium at Fairfield University.
Media Highlights provides monthly summaries of "UCSC in the News" columns.
