Hidden figures
UC Santa Cruz Economics Professor Rob Fairlie is sounding the alarm about COVID-19's disproportionate impact on African American/Black-, Latinx-, and other minority-owned businesses, with the aim of addressing the nation's racial wealth gap
By Dan White, October 2020
Barbara Ferrer: Advocating for justice through public health
Rachel Carson ’78, community studies
By Peggy Townsend, October 2020
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
Raising a glass (and funds) for research
Michael David Winery—owned by the family of UC Santa Cruz virologist Rebecca DuBois—is helping fund the professor’s COVID-19 research with its “Going Viral” Merlot.
By Dan White, October 2020
Building opportunity
Campus benefactor Jack Baskin not only established the Baskin School of Engineering Fund, but also a charitable remainder trust benefitting the fund—helping more than 5,000 students (and counting) gain engineering degrees and compete effectively in the job market.
October 2020
