In the fall of 1994, there was a buzz around the UC Santa Cruz campus. Something was about to go down, something big. Not many details were known at first, but it revolved around an upcoming major ...
A chance encounter with a banana slug on a rainy-day visit to UC Santa Cruz has inspired the plot of a brand-new children’s book dedicated to the campus mascot. Sally Slug, written by Anne Neufeld ...
Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species synonymous with California’s coastal redwood forests and the university's beloved ...