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Malina Long 4/13/22 Malina Long 4/13/22

NEST Flight Annual Conference for Students and Young Professionals

NEST Flight conference for young professionals, recent graduates, and students is happening this May!

Guest User 4/12/22 Guest User 4/12/22

FITAID Energy® Disrupts So-Called Clean Energy Drink Market

The naturally sweetened and green-tea caffeinated addition to FITAID Sports Recovery line promises to revolutionize energy drink industry.

Malina Long 4/12/22 Malina Long 4/12/22

Santa Cruz County Bank Hires Vice President, Relationship Manager, Jay Gines

Santa Cruz County Bank today announced Jay Gines has joined as Vice President and Relationship Manager

Doug Erickson 4/12/22 Doug Erickson 4/12/22

Mapping the Ocean's Most Remote Regions

The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project and Seatrec have launched Project NEMO to map the world’s most remote and inaccessible oceans.

Malina Long 4/12/22 Malina Long 4/12/22

UCSC and Amazon Web Services Work to Accelerate Genomics Research

As AWS expands their products for genomics research, UCSC is a key partner in making complex analysis more accessible to scientists.

Malina Long 4/12/22 Malina Long 4/12/22

Provide Input on CS and IT Education in Santa Cruz County

The Santa Cruz County Office of Education requests your input on Computer Science (CS) and Information Technology (IT) Education for students in the county.

Malina Long 4/11/22 Malina Long 4/11/22

Better Boxes Take the Stress Out of Moving and Getting Organized

Laura filed for a utility patent, and a few years after that, it was granted. The invention? A new kind of cardboard box, uniquely folded around a strong and sturdy core of paper honeycomb panels.

Malina Long 4/8/22 Malina Long 4/8/22

Purcell Q1 Update

Purcell, an innovative retail merchandising equipment company based in Santa Cruz, California, recently released an overview of its Q1.

Malina Long 4/8/22 Malina Long 4/8/22

Toby Corey to Speak at UCSC on the Importance of Entrepreneurship

SCEE (Student Creativity and Entrepreneurship Empowerment) and GetVirtual are hosting a guest speaker event starring Toby Corey on April 14th at 7:10 pm at Merrill Cultural Center!

Doug Erickson 4/7/22 Doug Erickson 4/7/22

Success: Santa Cruz Chorale Ukraine Benefit

The Santa Cruz Chorale “Save the Children Ukraine” benefit concert was a huge success for our community.

Doug Erickson 4/6/22 Doug Erickson 4/6/22

Future Hop Across the Pond - Joby in the U.K.

According to founder JoeBen Bevirt, Britain’s dense concentration of large cities is ideal for vertical takeoff and landing craft.

Malina Long 4/6/22 Malina Long 4/6/22

Parallel Flight Hosting Wildfire, Drones, and the Latest Tech Webinar

Join Parallel Flight Technologies for a webinar to hear about Wildfire, Drones, and the Latest Tech.

Malina Long 4/6/22 Malina Long 4/6/22

Climatize Attends World Policy Forum

Alba Forns co-founder of Climatize heads to the World Policy Forum and participates in the G7/G20 think tanks.

Guest User 4/6/22 Guest User 4/6/22

Straight Talk: A Conversation with Kyle from Onewheel

Kyle Doerksen discusses some hot topics in the Onewheel community including supply chain issues, production issues with the GT, centralized service model compared to distributed, battery shaping and more.

Doug Erickson 4/5/22 Doug Erickson 4/5/22

Santa Cruz Design Firm Spanner to Support Entrepreneurs

Spanner Santa Cruz offers startups mentorship assistance from their offices in downtown Santa Cruz.

Doug Erickson 4/5/22 Doug Erickson 4/5/22

Local Legend Joins Low Carbon

Ed Colligan has joined Low Carbon as Head of Americas and as a board member. What could this mean for Santa Cruz? Stay tuned.

Malina Long 4/4/22 Malina Long 4/4/22

UCSC Makes Major Breakthrough with First Complete Gapless Sequence of a Human Genome

Parts of the human genome now available to study for the first time are important for understanding genetic diseases, human diversity, and evolution thanks to UCSC.

Malina Long 4/4/22 Malina Long 4/4/22

UCSC Genomics Institute Tool Becomes Primary Method to Identify Lineages of COVID-19 Worldwide

As COVID-19 continues to mutate, software developed and maintained at the University of California, Santa Cruz’s Genomics Institute will now be at the core of the primary tool.