August 2015

Gaming researchers host a Reddit AMA on making games more findable and expressive using computer science.

Alice Waters—who has an international reputation as a chef, cookbook author, and spokesperson for sustainable food—shares common cause with UC Santa Cruz’s pioneering role in sustainable food systems.

From saving falcons to peering into the universe, sequencing the human genome, and putting organic food on American tables, UC Santa Cruz has become known as the small university where big things happen.

Kris Perry doesn’t think about the way historians will tell her story. Instead, the 1986 Merrill College graduate with degrees in sociology and psychology thinks how life will be different for children nationwide because of what she did.

When Devin Hibbard saw a woman named Millie sitting on her front stoop in the slums of Uganda rolling trash paper into tight little beads, she just had to know her story.

Alumni Weekend in April celebrated and honored UC Santa Cruz’s 50th anniversary in fittingly grand style.

The 2007 story of Johanna Orozco haunted director/playwright Tlaloc Rivas for more than six years because her story coincided with his desire to upgrade the narrative of Latinos in the U.S.

When the opportunity came to help start Salud Para La Gente, a tiny health clinic for those same low-income residents in Watsonville, Barbara Garcia gave up her goal of being a teacher and jumped at the chance. Little did she know where that decision would lead.

As a successful TV producer, Paul Sparrow helped catch murderers and child abductors. He guided a 100-person production team across the wilds of Morocco to document one of the world’s toughest adventure races. He directed more than a dozen documentaries and 300 hours of primetime TV, and won two Emmys. But ask the 61-year-old Sparrow…