A story about the Grateful Dead in the New Yorker magazine noted that Nicholas Meriwether is the curator of the Grateful Dead Archive which the band had donated to UC Santa Cruz. An article about the Grateful Dead Archive and Meriwether also appeared in the journal, American Scholar.
The San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel featured stories on a state regional Ethics Bowl tournament, hosted for the very first time on the UC Santa Cruz campus by the Philosophy Department.
Biologist Daniel Costa's research on the migrations of top predators in the Pacific Ocean was featured in an article in Natural History magazine.
The BioMAP screening procedure for antibiotic discovery developed in biochemist Roger Linington's lab was covered by R&D magazine, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Medical News Today, Health News, Bio-Medicine, Science Daily, Infection Control Today, and Medical Express.
The gift from Narinder Kapany to fund an endowed chair in entrepreneurship was covered by the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Monterey County Herald, and Laser Focus World.
Biomolecular engineer David Haussler was featured in a GigaOm article about applications of "big data" in medicine. The Washington Post also ran the story.
Computer scientist Ethan Miller was quoted in an article about supercomputers that ran in ComputerWorld and PC World.
Daniel Tapia (Oakes, '08, legal studies) won the 30th California International Marathon in Sacramento, the first American to win the race since 1999. The Sacramento Bee noted that the Salinas native is "a former standout at UC Santa Cruz."
