Category: Features
Confronting COVID
From developing faster tests to building prediction models of the spread of the infection, campus researchers are applying their skills in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
By Lisa Renner, October 2020
Fiction forward
Students, alumni, and community members are participating in a "Deep Read" on the bleak dystopian futures of Margaret Atwood in advance of the Booker Prize–winning author's on-stage discussion during Alumni Weekend
By Dan White, February 2020
Beating crime by a hair
Biomolecular engineer Ed Green's new technique to extract DNA from hair samples to help identify killers and victims could help solve thousands of cold cases
By Peggy Townsend, February 2020
Instituting change
UC Santa Cruz’s Institute for Social Transformation incubates, funds, and helps amplify important social sciences research, aiming for wide audiences and maximum impact
By Dan White, February 2020
A growing movement
An 18-month project around art and incarceration—including the striking participatory landscape art piece called “Solitary Garden"—is a comment on mass incarceration and racial injustice in the prison system
By Peggy Townsend, February 2020
A catalyst for change
UC Santa Cruz’s new chancellor is a distinguished chemist fascinated by both the transformation of matter and the transformative power of a UC education
By Dan White, October 2019
Rising above
A stubborn strength propelled alumnus Dr. Ramon Resa, who went from working in the fields by the age of 3 to successful pediatrician with a practice in the Central Valley
By Peggy Townsend, October 2019
Thinking really big
From the time before time to potential existential dangers of the future, physicist Anthony Aguirre peers into the mysteries that define our reality
By Adam Mann (SciCom '10), March 2019
Hire power
Three new strategic faculty hires come with résumés of pioneering work and plans to focus on game-changing objectives
By Peggy Townsend, March 2019
A chancellor looks back
With his time as chancellor drawing to a close, George Blumenthal reflects on his 13 years in UC Santa Cruz’s top job and a lifetime on campus
By Dan White, March 2019
Escuchar, Compartir, Comunidad: The power of voice
A unique partnership trains young people from Watsonville in the broadcasting basics and helps them publish their podcasts
By Dan White, March 2019
Lamat Program: Shooting for the stars
The bright—but previously unrecognized—young scientists of UC Santa Cruz’s Lamat program have found their destiny by turning their eyes to the heavens
By Dan White, October 2018
Hope for housing
With housing costs becoming a crisis both locally and statewide, an ambitious UC Santa Cruz project called No Place Like Home seeks to inform the debate—and the quest for solutions—through research
By Dan White, October 2018