2015

  • Your Turn

    Your Turn

    Raves, rants, recommendations, and love letters from our readers and social media friends.

  • The Campaign for UC Santa Cruz: Campaign update

    The Campaign for UC Santa Cruz: Campaign update

    As our campus celebrates 50 years of original thinking and questioning authority, The Campaign for UC Santa Cruz is building resources for its future.

  • 50th Anniversary

    Dress-up success To kick off UC Santa Cruz’s 50th birthday year with a fashion flourish, the campus threw a “Dress Like It’s 1965 Day” on January 15. Staff, faculty, students, and community members participated—and had a blast (from the past)! The Dress-up Day top winners were students Emily Graily and Sarah Logan, and professor of…

  • Weed control planned on East Field Monday, March 23

    UC Santa Cruz Grounds Services plans to apply two selective broadleaf herbicides to the East Field Monday, March 23, weather permitting.

  • Original vision

    Original vision

    Reflections on the tumultuous ’60s, the heady days of UC Santa Cruz’s beginnings, and the ways the campus has stayed true to its mission through the decades

  • From the Chancellor / The chancellor’s desk: outstanding in his field

    From the Chancellor / The chancellor’s desk: outstanding in his field

    The black-and-white photo on the cover of this issue is a campus classic. The playful image captures the spirit of adventure founding Chancellor Dean McHenry brought to the job of building a new campus from the ground up.

  • Spring ’15 Review masthead

    Spring 2015 UC Santa Cruz Review UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ Chancellor: George Blumenthal Vice Chancellor, University Relations: Keith Brant UC Santa Cruz Review Spring 2015 Editor: Gwen Jourdonnais Creative Director: Lisa Nielsen Art Director/Designer: Linda Knudson (Cowell ’76) Associate Editor: Dan White Photography Vester Dick Carolyn Lagattuta Eric Thiermann Elena Zhukova Contributors Amy Ettinger Guy Lasnier (Merrill ’78) Scott Rappaport…

  • Alumneye

    Alumneye

    This alumni photo submission feature highlights and celebrates the experiences, travels, and artistic insights of UC Santa Cruz’s diverse and fascinating alumni.

  • Alumni Profile / Jacob Martinez: Creating opportunity

    Alumni Profile / Jacob Martinez: Creating opportunity

    When Jacob Martinez asked a classroom of middle-schoolers to raise their hands if they had a computer at home, most of them did. But as the 36-year-old Martinez dug deeper, hands began to drop. How many had broadband? How many shared their computers with fewer than three people? How many had computers less than five…

  • Alumni Profile / Rachel Howzell Hall: Writing down the mysteries

    Alumni Profile / Rachel Howzell Hall: Writing down the mysteries

    Rachel Howzell Hall had always been fascinated by the darkness of crime novels, and, as an English and American literature major at UC Santa Cruz, she’d wanted to pen her own. But she was too frightened by her lack of knowledge about police work to give it a try. Then something came along that scared…

  • Philanthropy Focus: A Marvelous gift

    Philanthropy Focus: A Marvelous gift

    An alumni duo has donated a large collection of vintage comic books, aiming to aid research on topics including gender studies and pop culture.

  • Last week’s disruptions

    Over the past week, many questions, comments, inquiries, and demands have come our way regarding last week’s disruptions.

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