Who to watch: Seniors Alice Kim and Chelsea Stelzmiller are the two UC Davis players with NCAA finals experience.

Apple surpassed Google as the most valuable company in the world. A Millward-Brown study reported that Apple made an 84 percent increase in brand value. Apple is now worth $153 billion; meanwhile, the now second-place Google is worth $111 billion.

Last week marked the State of Emergency Week of Action, led by the California Teacher’s Association (CTA).

Students are pushing to get rid of single-use plastic bags at the campus bookstore. If successful, they hope to expel the bags from the university and city as well.

Since September 2010, Paul Navazio has been the city of Davis’ interim city manager. The City of Davis City Council has since worked on recruiting a permanent city manager.

In the basement of Freeborn Hall lies a dream job for most college students: broadcasting your music choices and opinions to everyone willing to tune into the 90.3 frequency.

Annahita K. Sarcon, a fourth-year graduate student at UC Davis School of Medicine, was recently awarded a Fulbright Award to conduct cardiac stem cell research in Pamplona, Spain.

Gov. Jerry Brown announced his 2011-12 state budget proposal on Monday.

Chris Martin, a fourth-year graduate student at UC Davis, waded into a lake in 100-degree weather. Though the water was only two feet deep, he had to wear a full-body wet suit to avoid the pain of stinging algae.

World War II’s destructive history has paved the road for educational programs and the building of foreign relations. One of these programs, The Marshall Plan Foundation in Austria, intends to bring opportunities to students in the international market.

When’s the last time you actually won an iPod for being the one millionth visitor to a website or a free vacation to a tropical island?

Science writer David Quammen once wrote, “Biology has great potential as vulgar entertainment.”