Category: Features
Balancing equations
Mathematics Professor Pedro Morales-Almazán helps students find their own paths and discover infinite possibility in mathematics—and in themselves
By Kristen Garabedian, November 2024
Stepping onto the global stage
An interdisciplinary team of UCSC faculty visited universities in England and Northern Ireland this past spring as part of the first Faculty Seminar Away Program, making connections and building lasting institutional partnerships
By Kristen Garabedian, November 2024
Creating a ripple in the chemistry field
A UC Santa Cruz chemistry professor working to help produce better treatments for Alzheimer's disease reflects on his journey, from the dark days that clouded his youth to a career defined by a passion for fundamental discovery
By Mike Peña, August 2024
Making memories
A group of 11 students had a transformative learning journey when they traveled to Okinawa over spring break as part of the Okinawa Memories Initiative, a public history project that uses experiential learning and community service to explore the dramatic...
By Gwen Jourdonnais, August 2024
Novel questions
Students in a course on the 2024 Deep Read novel, Trust, provide some of their insights from their close examination of the text, discussing unreliable narrators, the nature of truth, and how wealth and power can bend reality itself
By Gwen Jourdonnais, June 2024
Modern alchemy
UCSC’s iGEM program, which aims to educate the next generation of scientists about responsible use of synthetic biology, is celebrating 10 years of turning student potential into gold
By Kristen Garabedian, June 2024
Collaborating for justice
UC Santa Cruz’s Institute for Social Transformation celebrates its first five years and looks forward to a future of accelerating the co-creation of knowledge to build positive change
By Liza Monroy, June 2024
Worldwide webs
UCSC’s Global Classrooms initiative connects students and faculty with the world, allowing them to engage in virtual exchange collaborations with partnering institutions in countries including Kenya, Brazil, Cameroon, Spain, Chile, France, Mexico, and Colombia—all without leaving their home classrooms
By Kristen Garabedian, February 2024