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UC Santa Cruz postdoc leads #ShutDownSTEM movement as thousands of scientists worldwide to go on strike for Black lives
Nidhi SubbaramanNature June 10, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA Academics and scientific organizations will stop research activities on 10 June to reflect and take action on systemic inequalities in science. Thousands of academics and some […]
Poly Studio X Family and Poly G7500 are the First Zoom Rooms Appliances to Receive Zoom Certification
(Contributed) June 10, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA Zoom Rooms certification broadens Poly’s native, purpose-built portfolio of solutions for secure, seamless video conferencing Plantronics, Inc. (“Poly” – formerly Plantronics and Polycom) (NYSE: PLT), a global […]
Levered Learning Awarded Research-Based Design Product Certification
(Contributed) June 10, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA New certification provides transparency to edtech marketplace Levered Learning has earned the Research-Based Design product certification from Digital Promise. The new product certification is intended to serve as […]
Levered Students Make Gains In Math: A Distance Learning Success Story
(Contributed) June 10, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA Software-as-a-service model allowed classes to resume, almost uninterrupted, as schools moved to the homes of their students and teachers “With Levered, students have demonstrated the same success […]
What’s Next for Cosmic
By Eric ResslerCosmic June 10, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA (Image source: Cosmic) Cosmic announces new brand and website, plans for their team, and the company’s deepening commitment to the social impact sector Today, we’re officially […]
New method predicts spin dynamics of materials for quantum computing
By Tim StephensUC Santa Cruz, CA June 9, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA (Image above: Foreground: UC Santa Cruz Assistant Chemistry Professor Yuan Ping. Source: UC Santa Cruz. Background: Illustration representing spin relaxation due to […]
UC COVID-19 seed funding supports UCSC coronavirus genome browser
by Tim StephensUC Santa Cruz June 9, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA (Image: UCSC Genome Browser view of SARS-CoV-2 genomic datasets. Source: UC Santa Cruz) Interactive online tool provides researchers easy access to latest molecular […]
UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Community Health unite to test underserved community members
By Scott Hernandez-JasonUC Santa Cruz June 9, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo source: UC Santa Cruz) Campus and nonprofit seize opportunity to provide fast testing for the community’s most vulnerable residents Compelled by values of […]
Stanford to Launch Free Program for Aspiring Entrepreneurs Supported by Local eLearning Company, Monarch Media
(Source: Stanford University) June 8, 2020 — Palo Alto, CA (Image source: Stanford) Stanford Rebuild is a global innovation sprint to develop solutions for challenges and opportunities as counties emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic [Editor’s note: […]
Five in Five: Peggy Dolgenos of Cruzio
By Sarah Vickers-WebbProduction & Editorial AssistantSanta Cruz Tech Beat June 8, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA Cruzio CEO talks equal access Internet, no-contact installation, and serving the Santa Cruz community during the COVID-19 pandemic For […]