Author: Lisa Renner
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Sandra Nair
The 21-year-old from Kerala, India, is graduating with a double major in physics and mathematics, she speaks four languages, she has won numerous awards, and—oh, yes, she’s a published author of science-fiction novels.
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Minh Anh Nguyen
It was a big change for San Jose resident Minh Anh Nguyen to move across the country to New Jersey last summer for an internship with defense contractor Lockheed Martin, but because of her experience she was able to land a job working with the C programming language at Lockheed Martin’s Sunnyvale location.
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Sergio Mendez Vargo
Sergio Mendez Vargo always knew he wanted to be in the sciences but wasn’t sure what branch.
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Ahyesha Russell
After graduation, Ahyesha Russell is headed for a well-paid job with Capgemini in Seattle as a technical consultant—something she hadn’t thought was possible in her wildest dreams.
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Campus team a finalist in Amazon’s Alexa challenge
UC Santa Cruz’s Team Athena is one of five teams remaining in the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge from a field of 375 applicants from around the world.
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Focus on patients led alumna to nursing
Even in the midst of COVID-19, Hannah Miller said she continues to do the same job—caring for patients when they are at their most vulnerable.
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‘Seeds of Something Different’ explores campus’s trailblazing history
The 925-page book was inspired by a desire to share the rich treasure trove of oral history and collection of photos and campus posters with the public. It features more than 200 narrators as well as 250 images.
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UC Santa Cruz joins the Association of Pacific Rim Universities
Joining the organization offers UC Santa Cruz another opportunity to widen institutional partnerships and relationships on a critically important international stage.
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Computer engineering graduate student focused on intersection of energy, computer security
For Allen Aboytes, one of the best things about working in the field of computer engineering is the cooperation with others to achieve a goal.
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Physics doctoral student excited to learn about condensed matter
Before coming to UC Santa Cruz, Jennifer Sittler worked on the Large Hadron Collider, writing code to increase the accuracy of results.
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Latino studies graduate student focused on history, roots
Five years ago, Mario Alberto Gómez-Zamora worked with teen-agers to collect stories from elders in a P’urhépecha indigenous community in Patamban, Michoacán, Mexico. Today, he’s a graduate student in Latin American and Latino Studies.
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Student interns work to prevent sexual assault, discrimination
The campus created four paid student internships to increase student engagement with and by the Title IX Office.