The 5th Annual Get Hired on June 2 brings a new event format with Discovery and Recruiting breakrooms, a 30 minute Designing Your Life course by author Dave Evans, and 3 winning teams from UCSC CIED Idea Hub.

A lot of what we buy is packed in Styrofoam. It's hard to recycle and it's not biodegradable but a Santa Cruz County firm is looking to replace Styrofoam with a biodegradable packing made from shrimp.

Cruz Foam, the bio-benign foam and plastic packaging alternative provider, today announced it has secured $1 million in non-dilutive funding with an NSF SBIR Phase II Grant in support of the development of its patented sustainable packaging material.

Robert Chesnut, author of “Intentional Integrity, How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution—and Why That's Good for All of Us”. Recording and transcripts.

Santa Cruz County Bank announced the promotion of Jon Sisk from Regional President to Regional President/Chief Banking Officer.

NDC Economic Development Lending offers flexible lending to small businesses in Santa Cruz County. They provide COVID-19 Emergency Loans up to $50,000 and Recovery & Growth Loans up to $500,000.

Local Robert Singleton of Bird is excited to announce Bird going public via a SPAC with an implied valuation of $2.3 billion.

The Resource Center for Nonviolence and Save Our Shores invite you to join us from 4-6pm on June 10th for TRUTH + JUSTICE = HOPE, a California Ocean and Climate Justice Summit

Join us on May 13th as we have a fireside chat with AirBnB's former Chief Ethics Officer Robert Chesnut. Chesnut helps companies develop comprehensive strategies to drive integrity in their culture.

Paystand will offer more than 50 jobs at 2021 Get Hired on June 2. This article gives readers a glimpse of the company, the culture, and the many opportunities for every skill set.

Event snapshot, transcripts, and recording. Congressman Jimmy Panetta, Joby Aviation, Bird Rides, Ambient Photonics, City of Santa Cruz, NuScale, and many more.

Santa Cruz Mayor Donna Meyers proclaimed the week of May 16 to 22 as National Public Works week encouraging recognition of the contributions that public works professionals make in protecting health, safety and quality of life.

Local historian Gregg Herken describes “Project Pluto”, a development program for a nuclear-armed, nuclear-powered ramjet missile at the Livermore lab in the late-1950s. What could possibly go wrong…

Trigger warning: this writing will address self-harm. I wanted to interview someone who was willing to talk about their mental health struggles and experience of having self harm thoughts.

Our most popular event of the year: Get Hired and the UCSC CIED Business Plan Contest. Over 300 jobs will be offered. Don’t miss this event!

A bold project to read the complete genetic sequences of every known vertebrate species has reached its first milestone, publishing new methods and the first 25 high-quality genomes.

Watch and listen to Banana Slug alums share just what makes UC Santa Cruz so special to them. Watch + learn why you should say #yes2UCSC​

Are you getting your Onewheel refreshed for riding season? It's amazing how with a few accessories, you can completely refresh your board.

Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) introduces Making Imperiled Communities Resistant to Outages with Generation that is Resilient, Islandable, and Distributed (MICROGRID) Act.

A new Santa Cruz startup has built a search engine that is free, delivers great results, and is completely private.