UC Santa Cruz Magazine

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

Print Sale marks a half century

The UC Santa Cruz Art Department is celebrating reaching a new stage of distinction with a milestone anniversary—the 50th year of the beloved Print Sale, a tradition that helps both students and the department

By Emily Wilson, February 2024

Getting into Good Trouble

In keeping with the words of the famed late civil rights icon and congressman John R. Lewis—namesake of John R. Lewis College—the newly created Good Trouble Academy is shaping students’ skills in activism and community leadership.

By Liza Monroy, February 2024

Opening volley

UC Santa Cruz is broadening the federal Year of Open Science—aimed at making taxpayer-funded research findings more accessible to the public—into the Year of Open Scholarship, with the goal of normalizing open access to data and discovery

By Grace Stetson, February 2024

Students get in on ‘hot labor summer’

UC Santa Cruz students took part in Labor Summer, the inaugural project of the UC-wide expansion of labor studies programs that trained student interns on the frontlines of worker organizing

By Liza Monroy, November 2023

Letters

Letters from Fall 2015

Correspondence, comments, rants, and raves from readers.

March 2016

Banana Slug Parade participants walk and drive down Pacific Avenue

News bites

This is UC Santa Cruz

A roundup of recent news, events, happenings, and special reports.

March 2016

Alumni news

Alumni association changes and adapts

UC Santa Cruz is shifting from the old model of "alumni association" to a powerful new model of "alumni network."

By Dan White, March 2016

Campaign update

The Campaign for UC Santa Cruz

Alumna Bev Crair made an empowering decision when she honored her best friend—her mother—with a pledge establishing an endowed fund for students at the Lionel Cantú Queer Center.

March 2016

Alumni profiles

Anil Ananthaswamy: Self-aware

A willingness to explore and ask questions, even when it's uncomfortable, has marked Anil Ananthaswamy as a respected science journalist.

By Peggy Townsend, March 2016

Alumni profiles

Chris Brown: Street wise and book smart

When the bullet missed Chris Brown's head by millimeters, it set him on a course toward teaching criminal justice and working to end the gang violence on the streets of Los Angeles.

By Peggy Townsend, March 2016