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The celebrated UC Santa Cruz oceanography professor Gary Griggs made a vow this spring, and he plans to stick with it. “I am going to be the last guy standing at UC Santa Cruz,” he declared with equal parts bluster and self-deprecating humor. Griggs, 77, distinguished professor of Earth and planetary sciences, is well aware of the fact that most faculty members who have taught for more than half a century, as he has, have the word "emeritus" or "emerita" hanging off the end of their titles. At this point, only one other active faculty member, a professor in the English Department, has b...

February 25, 2021 Researchers used a circular knitting machine to make a prototype of a replacement for a coronary artery. Image courtesy of Fan Zhang. Knitted vascular graft prototype shows promise in preclinical findings. By Laura Oleniacz In a proof-of-concept study, Raleigh, N.C.-based North Carolina State University (NC State) researchers reported promising preclinical findings for a prototype of a vascular graft designed as a replacement for a damaged or blocked coronary artery, which supplies blood to the heart. The findings, which were made in partnership with researchers from Case W...