NEWS MAKERS
President Philip E. Austin appeared on CPTV's On the Record and WFSB's CT '97 last weekend ... Kirklyn M. Kerr, dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and other faculty members were interviewed for a New York Times story about the changing study of agriculture ... Sandra Bushmich, associate professor of pathology, appeared in a New York Times article about the adoption of cats ... Valerie Duffy, assistant professor of dietetics, talked about how genes affect taste buds in the New York Times Science section ... Erika Anderson, instructor in communication sciences, talked about on-line romancing in The Christian Science Monitor ... Regina Barreca, associate professor of English, recommended books for Valentine's Day in a Journal Inquirer article ... Angel Oquendo, associate professor in the School of Law, commented on a proposed English-only bill detailed in The Hartford Courant ... Jack Chinsky, professor of psychology, was interviewed in a Hartford Courant story about passion ... David Miller, the state climatologist, explained cloud formations in the New Haven Register ... David Pesci, a university relations associate, was interviewed in The Boston Globe about his forthcoming novel Amistad.