NPR's "Day to Day" program featured environmental studies professor Chris Wilmers in a report on tracking mountain lions in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
The March issue of The Atlantic magazine featured a story on the Library's Grateful Dead Archive--spotlighting music professor Fred Lieberman and the academic and scholarly impact of the archive across the arts, management, and business. The article generated much commentary and blog response--ranging from the LA Weekly, the SF Bay Area's Classical Voice, and New Hampshire Public Radio to a recommended reading plug from the New York Times Week in Review staff, to a Crawdaddy magazine piece titled "Grateful Dead Archive Incites Scholastic Following."
Hiroshi Fukurai, a professor of sociology and law, was quoted in the Detroit News in an article on rancor inside a jury room. The case involved a lone holdout--an African American woman--in a high-profile corruption case that ended in a mistrial. Fukurai has studied racial issues in juror deliberations.
Computer scientist Michael Mateas was featured in a story about the computer game design program in the Silicon Valley Business Journal.
A data storage system developed by computer scientist Ethan Miller was featured in a story in New Scientist magazine about the fragility of digital data stores.
Molecular biologist Harry Noller was quoted in a story about the search for signs of life on Mars on MSNBC.com, Space.com, Space Daily, and PhysOrg.com.
Biomolecular engineer Mark Akeson was quoted in a story about nanopore sequencing technology on Genomeweb.com.
Santa Cruz Good Times ran a story about UCSC's top 20 ranking in geosciences, quoting Earth and planetary sciences chair Paul Koch.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about astronomer Greg Laughlin and his work translating the motions of planets into sound.
Biologist Todd Newberry was quoted in stories about a pink flamingo in Elkhorn Slough in the San Jose Mercury News, Monterey County Herald, and Santa Cruz Sentinel.
An Inside Higher Ed article about the tendency to equate literature in general with literature written in English, noted that "students would be better served if colleges and universities offered a literature major, as is notably the case at Yale, UC San Diego, and UC Santa Cruz," where they could take into account the larger global context.
Literature professor Julianne Burton-Carvajal was interviewed for a San Francisco Chronicle article about an exhibition she curated at the Carmel Mission of photographs and drawings of five missions built in Mexico by Father Junipero Serra.
And Feminist Studies professor Bettina Aptheker contributed a review of Leila J. Rupp's new book, Sapphistries, to the Chronicle.
The Santa Cruz Weekly published poems by newly announced Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate and literature lecturer Gary Young.
Tenerife magazine ran an article about "Cielo/Sky"--a sister city art exchange exhibition in the Canary Islands, Spain--quoting Sesnon Gallery Director Shelby Graham, who curated the exhibition featuring UCSC faculty and local Santa Cruz artists.
