Comments by UC Davis community members and references to the campus regularly appear in a wide variety of media outlets around the country. Among the recent citings in prominent publications:

Physician Bill Lloyd was interviewed by CNN on Feb. 24 about the government's order that drug manufacturers warn patients of the possible risks of taking attention deficit disorder medication.

The Feb. 26 issue of the Los Angeles Times quotes professor emeritus David Brody, who said that labor unions "need a new process" other than secret ballots, to start up labor unions.

In response to the spanking law controversy, the Feb. 12 issue of The Sacramento Bee includes remarks by psychology professor Ross Thompson. "All the students in my classes say, 'I was spanked and I'm not a psychopath,'" Thompson said. "But most of those students have been raised by parents who did other things besides spanking."

Jeffrey Mount, geology professor and one of the co-authors of recent delta study, contributed to a Feb. 9 San Francisco Chronicle news article. "The delta (of the 19th century) is gone," Mount said. "It's not coming back. We have a new designer delta, and it is legitimate to ask the question if we have been better off with a static, homogenous freshwater system rather than a (variable) one. Clearly, we haven't."

The Minnesota Daily reported in its Feb. 9 issue on the danger of the dust spread from the 9/11 towers collapse. Atmospheric sciences professor Thomas Cahill said the debris was "wildly toxic" and affects residents even to this day.

Terry Ord, a postgraduate researcher in evolution and ecology who is working with Judy Stamps, professor of evolution, found that some Puerto Rican lizards alter their physical movements in visually "noisy" environments, the Feb. 13 edition of The New York Times reported. To defend their territory, these small lizards from El Yunque, the Caribbean National Forest, perform small push-ups signaling to other lizards to steer clear.

James Murray, a professor of animal science, was quoted in the Feb. 12 issue of Contra Costa Times about the safety of food products derived from cloned animals and whether they were safe for consumption. Murray believes many of the controversial questions concerning cloning are just red herrings.

A Feb. 8 article by The Associated Press about the future of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta quoted UC Davis professors Jay Lund and Richard Howitt. Lund and Howitt are co-authors of a recent study indicating the delta and the way it is being managed now is unsustainable.

A Washington Post Feb. 6 article on the dangers of high-fructose corn syrup mentioned endocrinologist Peter Havel, who suggested that eating too much fructose could contribute to weight gain and may be one of the underlying factors of America's obesity epidemic.

The Feb. 9 Guardian Unlimited carried a column by English lecturer Sasha Abramsky. In it he described our current youth "generation null, a group of people completely ignorant" of our nation's recent past.

KCRA-TV in Sacramento reported on Feb. 13 on the work of UC Davis veterinarians who performed surgery on an injured heron discovered on campus. The veterinarians gave the bird what is essentially a feather transplant before releasing it to the wild.

Haley Davis is an intern in the News Service.