Media Coverage
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UCSC breaks ground on biology building
The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered the groundbreaking for the Coastal Biology building. Stories also ran in the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Inside Bay Area, and KION news.
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UC meets VC: UC Santa Cruz aims for startup hub with funding, incubator, tech partners
Scott Brandt, vice chancellor for research, was featured in a Silicon Valley Business Journal article about a new UC initiative to invest in startups based on university tech research. The story also ran in Upstart Business Journal.
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Can Santa Cruz turn the tech talent tide? New startup venture aims to poach Highway 17 tech bus commuters
Scott Brandt, UCSC vice chancellor for research, was quoted by the Silicon Valley Business Journal in an article about efforts in Santa Cruz to attract a high-tech work force.
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Donna Maurillo, Food for Thought: UCSC Farm showing way on sustainability
Santa Cruz Sentinel food columnist Donna Maurillo attended the fourth annual Farm to Fork dinner at the UCSC Farm and she liked what she saw.
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Heat, drought cited in massive Mount Shasta mudslide
Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk was quoted in a Sacramento Bee article about a mudslide caused by melting glaciers on Mt. Shasta. The story also ran in the San Luis Obispo Tribune.
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UCSC professor premieres animated short on Pueblo revolt: Goal of film is to spark social change
The San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story on the premiere of an animated short film on PBS by Film and Digital Media Professor John Leanos, which uses humor, rap, and comic book style animation to tell a story of revolt in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
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UCSC study gives clues about genetic expression
Molecular biologist Susan Strome was featured in articles about her lab's findings on epigenetic memory in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, The Scientist, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, Medical News Today, Health Canal, PhysOrg, and other media.
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UCSC’s gaming program is nurturing new generations of game developers
Computer scientist Jim Whitehead was quoted in a Silicon Valley Business Journal article about UCSC's programs in computer game design.
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Radical New DNA Sequencer Finally Gets into Researchers’ Hands
Biomolecular engineers David Deamer and Mark Akeson and their work on nanopore sequencing are featured in a Technology Review article about the MinION nanopore sequencer introduced by U.K. company Oxford Nanopore.
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Santa Cruz's Seymour Marine Discovery Center blends fun and education
The San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and Inside Bay Area ran a feature story in the travel section about the Seymour Marine Discovery Center.
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Earth’s Impending Magnetic Flip
Geophysicist Gary Glatzmaier was featured in a Scientific American article about reversals of the Earth's magnetic field. The story also ran in Salon.
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Conflicts with Yosemite bears fall dramatically as people, bears learn new lessons
Biologist Jack Hopkins was quoted in a San Jose Mercury News story about Yosemite bears that also ran in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Associated Press, and newspapers throughout California and elsewhere.