Sociologist Andrew Szasz was quoted by Los Angeles Times columnist Gregory Rodriguez in a piece about how Haiti jolted journalists to reality after highly publicized celebrity scandals and events such as the "balloon-boy" saga.
The Boston Globe reported that Central Park West will be Deadhead Central throughout the spring and into the summer, as the New York Historical Society hosts the first extensive exhibition based on holdings from the Grateful Dead Archive at UCSC.
Economics columnist Scott Shane, writing in Business Week, referred to a paper by Economics professor Rob Fairlie in a discussion of employed people who leave to start their own businesses.
Research on myotonic dystrophy led by biologists Manuel Ares and Hongqing Du was covered by Medical News Today, Genetic Engineering News, Science Daily, Medilexicon, Times of India, Asian News International, Hindustan Times, ScienceBlog, and Myotonic.org.
Computer simulations of the formation of massive stars by astrophysicist Mark Krumholz were featured in an article on star formation in Scientific American magazine.
The San Francisco Chronicle featured an interview with music professor Nicole Paiement about leading her Ensemble Parallèle in performances of Alban Berg's 1925 opera "Wozzeck" at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
The San Jose Mercury News and the Santa Cruz Sentinel ran stories on humanities lecturer Gary Young, who was named Santa Cruz County's first ever Poet Laureate.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran stories on:
- an award for science journalism won by Rob Irion, director of the Science Communication Program.
- art alumna Linda Christensen, whose paintings hang in New York, San Francisco, Laguna Beach and Dallas.
- "Book as Medium," an exhibition featuring 28 book artists at UCSC's Sesnon Gallery.
- economist Daniel Friedman in advance of delivering the faculty research lecture.
The Sentinel also tapped:
- Politics Department Chairman Dan Wirls for comments on President Obama's State of the Union Speech.
- Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, an anthropology professor and curator of the Monterey Bay Archeology Archives at UC Santa Cruz, for a story about Native American artifacts uncovered during an excavation in the Pajaro Valley.
