Issue: Spring 2019

Fire, loss, and the embrace of community
A UC Santa Cruz staff member reflects on the devastating loss of their home in the CZU August Lightning Complex fires
By Kristen Lee, October 2020

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






Crown funding
When an alumna recounts her special memories from Crown College, it becomes easy to join the effort by Crown alumni to double the college’s endowment by 2021
By Mary Elizabeth Garcia (Kresge '12, philosophy; M. A. '14), March 2019