Issue: Spring 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
Alumni Weekend 2020 is postponed
Important news: Alumni Weekend 2020 is postponed to a future date for coronavirus safety. However, the Margaret Atwood appearance on April 5 and The Deep Read are still on!
February 2020
Mark Zemelman: A mission-driven career
Crown '78, history
By David Gleason (Merrill '70, literature), Humanities Dean's Advisor, February 2020
Joaquin Sapien: Holding power accountable
Cowell ’06, environmental studies and politics
By Peggy Townsend, February 2020
Sherrice Mojgani: Lighting up the stage
Merrill '07, theater arts
By Maureen Dixon Harrison, February 2020
Words of warning
By crafting a dangerous future from fragments of history, novelist Margaret Atwood implores us to pay attention to the present, writes alumna Kate Schatz.
By Kate Schatz (Stevenson '01, women’s studies and creative writing), February 2020
Visit Shakespeare’s London
Literature professor and Shakespeare expert Sean Keilen will walk you through the monuments, museums, pubs, playhouses, gardens, and churches that have made London the envy of world capitals
February 2020