UCSC in the News is a weekly column summarizing prominent media placements UCSC faculty, staff, and students have received.
A New York Times story about walruses featured marine biologists Ron Schusterman and Colleen Reichmuth, who have been studying walrus cognitive abilities and vocal talents.
Physicist Terry Schalk was quoted in a New York Times story about the Maker Faire in San Mateo, and Schalk's tesla coil exhibit at the faire was the focus of a related story on the Times web site.
Economist Ricard Gil's study of the high cost of movie popcorn generated another round of high-level media interest, including calls from USA Today, the New York Post, ABC News, CNN, CNN Radio, the Kansas City Star, and KCRW Radio's The Business program.
Ms. magazine's feminist wire daily news briefs featured psychologist Campbell Leaper's latest study that found 90 percent of teen girls experience sexual harassment (see Currents story).
Biologists Glenn Stewart and Brian Latta of the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group were featured in coverage of the group's efforts to rescue peregrine falcon chicks from the San Francisco Bay Bridge, including stories in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Associated Press, KPIX TV, and KGO TV.
The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a story announcing that it has awarded its fifth annual David W. Miller Award for Student Journalists to Sam Laird, 2007 UCSC graduate in American studies (see Currents story).
Astrophysicists Stan Woosley and Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz were quoted in stories about new supernova observations in Science News magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, Physics World, and the Associated Press.
Jennifer Gonzalez, associate professor in the History of Art and Visual Culture Department, was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article about famed photographer Annie Leibovitz's exhibit in San Francisco.
An AP story about artificial intelligence in computer games included quotes from computer scientist Michael Mateas.
Feminist studies professor Bettina Aptheker was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle's obituary for Michael Rossman, a key planner of UC Berkeley's historic Free Speech Movement in 1964.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel reviewed the Theater Arts Department's production of Terrence McNally's play, Corpus Christi, noting that UCSC presented "a dazzling take on a controversial play."
Media Highlights provides monthly summaries of "UCSC in the News" columns.
