Author: Peggy Townsend
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Foundry celebrates 50th anniversary with a bronze pour
The foundry on the University of California, Santa Cruz campus has a long tradition of inviting guests to watch their spectacular bronze pour. This year’s pour is especially significant given it is the 50th anniversary of the Foundry.
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In Memoriam: Frank Andrews, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
With enormous gratitude, we celebrate the life of UC Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus Frank Andrews, who died of cancer on January 31, 2024, at age 91.
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A welcoming place in the redwoods
The Lionel Cantú Queer Resource Center is a place for students to claim and proclaim their voices.
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Seeking Okinawan rights
UC Santa Cruz doctoral candidate Lex McClellan-Ufugusuku appeared before the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, exploring whether the people of Okinawa could be recognized as Indigenous—meaning they might have the right to block or stop new military bases under guidelines about Indigenous people set up by the U.N.
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Amanda Quirk
Amanda Quirk’s research on galaxy mergers showed evidence that the Andromeda galaxy had some kind of major galactic collision in the past 4 billion years, and survived—which has implications for our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
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Benny Mosqueira
Benny Mosqueira felt driven to make something of himself, and he arrived on campus intending to become a medical doctor. Instead, the first-generation college student was captivated by the research opportunities he found at UC Santa Cruz and decided to pursue biomedical research as a career.
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Chailen August
Chailen August’s time at UC Santa Cruz put him on a path he never expected. Not only did he embark on a study of drill rap and its interpretation in Ghana, Africa, but, as part of a study-abroad program, he also had a visceral experience of what his enslaved ancestors may have endured.
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Sean Lawrence
With his work studying the relationship between Germany’s Deutsche Bank and the Ottoman Empire, Sean Lawrence shows that many things we think of as unique to our modern capitalistic world really have roots dating back much further.
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Jazmine Miles: Hands on research brings learning full circle
Jazmine Miles came to UC Santa Cruz looking for a place to grow. Today, thanks to an unexpected class choice, an inspiring sociology professor, and an opportunity to do hands-on research about the growing youth power movement in a once-conservative corner of California, the senior sociology major and film minor at Merrill College has done…
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Raymond Hess: In a state of flow
Raymond Hess, a senior Earth and planetary sciences major at Oakes College, likes using not only his mind but also his hands to solve problems. This is why when he’s not in the classroom, Hess will sometimes find himself chest deep in water in a flooded farm basin or hunched over a sediment analyzer in…
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Pearl Ibeanusi: Finding her village—and elevating her community
Every morning, Pearl Ibeanusi would wake up at 4 a.m., hoist a pan of plantains onto her head, and walk the streets of her rural village in Nigeria calling, “Buy plantains for breakfast,” until all her wares were gone. She was 8 years old. Afterward, Ibeanusi would get her five siblings ready for school, go…
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Keeping the stoke fresh
Alumnus David Schulkin, who has taught surfing to UC Santa Cruz students for more than two decades, is ‘all about joy and about passing on the joy of surfing.’