Stories about the winners of the 2010 National Book Awards in the Los Angeles Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Sacramento Bee, San Luis Obispo Tribune, Kansas City Star, Idaho Statesman, Modesto Bee, Minnesota Public Radio, CBS San Francisco, WGBH-TV and popmatters.com noted that literature professor Karen Tei Yamashita was a finalist in the Fiction category for her novel I Hotel. National Public Radio observed that she is "one of the break-out indie stars of the nominee list, with her under-the-radar novel on Minnesota's small Coffee House Press suddenly on the lips of many major publishers," adding that, "Yamashita--a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz--has been writing plays and novels about the Asian-American experience since the early 1990s."
The San Francisco Chronicle interviewed UCSC alumnus Paul Magid, a founding member of the legendary juggling-comedy troupe The Flying Karamazov Brothers.
ScienceWatch.com conducted a Q&A with Thomas Petttigrew, research professor of social psychology, after it selected a paper he co-wrote in 2006 as a "Fast Moving Front" in the field of psychiatry/psychology. Fast moving fronts are research areas that show significant increase in activity by other researchers. The initial paper, written with UCSC PhD graduate Linda Tropp was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and established that intergroup contact typically reduces prejudice.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel highlighted alum Drew Goodman and his company, Earthbound Farm, in a page-one feature Sunday. Earthbound was honored as philanthropic company of the year for the Central Coast.
The Sentinel also:
• Wrote an advance on the Museum of Natural History Collection's open house scheduled for December 5.
• Ran a feature story on MIXED NUTZ!, the holiday extravaganza co-presented by Tandy Beal & Company and the Theater Arts Department--quoting lecturer Tandy Beal, the show's director and choreographer.
• Ran a story about the "dazzling young talent" of the UCSC Orchestra, praising doctoral candidate in composition Noah Meites and music students Diane Chau and Lucia Del Guerzo, along with music faculty Nicole Paiement and Mary Jane Cope.
The banana slug and UCSC's green ethos got a nice write up in a blog by EnergyNow reporter Dan Goldstein. Goldstein, an alum who visted the campus in early November to interview environmental studies department chair Daniel Press, wrote that the banana slug "really does fit the campus's personality as an uber-green oasis of higher learning and environmental consciousness."
Associate professor of education Ron Glass was quoted in the Huntsville Times (Alabama) on ways to re-imagine school reform. Glass appeared as part of a panel discussion at the Huntsville Education Summit held at the University of Alabama.
Professor of film and digital media Shelley Stamp contributed an article to Framework: the Journal of Cinema and Media about silent film director, screenwriter, and actress Lois Weber.
The Times Higher Education Supplement (Britain's leading higher education news publication) featured a review of humanities lecturer William Nickell's book, The Death of Tolstoy: Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910.
The Eureka Times-Standard featured a story about alumnus Sean Herrera-Thomas's selection as College of the Redwoods's Associate Faculty of the Year, noting that the English professor earned both his master's and doctorate degrees in literature from UCSC.
