Media Coverage

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.

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.

There's very little good news with white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease spreading across the United States and Canada. But today researchers report online in Ecology Letters that one species of bat is reducing the risk of extinction with individual bats hibernating alone rather than in large groups.

Forget about whether it can harbor life. Right now astronomers can’t agree whether a potential “Goldilocks” exoplanet even exists.

No band deserves an online archive more than the Grateful Dead. As much lifestyle as musical outfit, the Dead influenced millions through their concerts and songs. A few years ago, the band selected the University of California Santa Cruz as the host for its history, and now the first fruits of that decision are available…

Rebecca Braslau and her colleagues describe a nontoxic spray that will fluoresce in the presence of urushiol. Braslau has gotten the rash more times than she'd care to remember. She knows how to avoid the plants herself, but she has a problem. "My husband's a geologist."

Our public universities are in trouble. Nationwide, they produce 70 percent of our college graduates. Yet, from coast to coast, unrelenting state budget cuts threaten the quality of our leading institutions, even as they force students and families to dig deeper and borrow more to pay the tuition.

Alexandra Villegas knew the state of California already requires colleges and universities to work toward procuring 20 percent "real food" by 2020, so she raised the standard on her campus. As a senior at the University of California Santa Cruz, Villegas successfully lobbied her dining director and administrators to commit to procuring 40 percent real…