UCSC in the News

Chancellor George Blumenthal was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article on the commission examining the future of the University of California. Blumenthal is co-chair of the Commission on the Future's "size and shape" working group. He said he expected the commission to generate good ideas but also said it would not be "the great savior of the university."

Coastal geologist and Institute of Marine Sciences director Gary Griggs was featured in a KGO-TV story about coastal erosion.

Nanotechnology Now covered research by chemists Jin Zhang and Yat Li on new semiconductor materials for solar cells and hydrogen production.

A Santa Cruz Sentinel article reported that UCSC's seventh annual Scholarship Benefit Dinner raised more than $160,000 for undergraduate scholarships, quoting keynote speaker and alumnus Ezequiel Olvera.