SANTA CRUZ — AXA, a global insurance company, has awarded UC Santa Cruz marine science Research Professor Michael Beck more than $1 million in funding to further his lab’s research into how reefs and ...

There’s a new face in Alvin Community College’s administration, but Michael Beck hopes to be known around campus fairly quickly. Beck is the school’s new vice president of instruction starting Aug. 1.

An unlikely husband-and-wife pastor team – a former drug addict and a self-described former party girl – aim to revitalize and reenergize a 50-year-plus-old northeast Ocala church. Michael Beck, 40, ...