As young people we sometimes feel invincible, and it's true that COVID is hitting older people much harder–but even if you don't wind up in the hospital reliant on a ventilator to breath, you can still spread the virus to the most vulnerable in our community.

Last month, sixteen student teams competed for $6000 in prize money in the 2020 UCSC IDEA Hub Pitch Contest, hosted by UCSC’s Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurial Development. The three finalists all represented socially beneficial technology projects developed by Baskin School of Engineering students.

Diana Powell, an astrophysics graduate student at UC Santa Cruz, was among 132 outstanding scholars awarded fellowships in the 2020 Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs.

You know who they are. They are in every web conference you have been in. Here is Poly’s humorous perspective on your fellow web conference attendees.

Santa Cruz Works and Santa Cruz County Office of Education announced today the formation of a partnership to provide educators and students access to local tech webinars and the greater tech community.

Join us on July 29 for a presentation and open discussion with leading climate entrepreneur and investor.

Tech startups have been busy even during the past many months of lockdown. Here is an article from Emerging Tech Brew.

The pandemic has taken our city by storm. While the outlook may at times seem bleak, there are beacons of positivity that will continue to power us forward.

The 2020 Startup Investment & Community Capital Expo (SICC) is pleased to announce that the applications to pitch to investor panels are now open for startup companies who are ready for investment and growth.

Shelter in place, and playing it safe during the pandemic? This new media production company will come to you.

Chris Miller, our favorite local entrepreneur, has the latest scoop on poop: The Poopinator. Being a responsible dog owner is not a job, it is a dooty.

The first end-to-end (‘telomere-to-telomere’) completely gapless DNA sequence of a human chromosome is a major milestone for genomics research

On July 7th, 2000, UCSC published the first draft of the human genome online, beating out Celera, ensuring that the human genome would remain un-patented, free and accessible to researchers for the decades to come.

The Ride Out the Wave campaign delivered $432,000 and was celebrated by California State Treasurer Fiona Ma.

Replay a webinar by data-leaders Snowflake, Starschema, and ThoughtSpot to learn how software stacks are adapting to meet the standards of the future.

New Santa Cruz startup has a miniaturized 30-second COVID antigen detection device. SanguineDx will present on August 5 at the 2020 Santa Cruz Biotech Startup webinar.

New $5 million NIH grant supports a collaborative research program to understand the cellular mechanisms by which botanical natural products may affect human health

Learn about SupplyShift's Greenhouse Gas Starter Assessment, a program to help you understand your suppliers' GHG measurement, disclosure, and reduction efforts.

Microsoft launched an initiative Monday to teach digital skills to 25 million people who lost their jobs due to Covid-19 by the end of 2020. The company will combine resources from itself and its subsidiaries LinkedIn and GitHub to identify in-demand jobs and skills, provide free skills and job-seeking tools and low-cost certifications.

Netflix is bringing in Bozoma Saint John to serve as its chief marketing officer, making her the third CMO for the streamer in the last year. Saint John will join Netflix from Endeavor, where she has served as CMO since 2018.