Author: Peggy Townsend
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Wilderness on the edge of town: Younger Lagoon a ‘living lab’ for students
Younger Lagoon Reserve is a postage-stamp-sized parcel of wilderness. Students sharpen their minds while they get their hands dirty: learning, researching, and making a difference too.
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Uncommon People / Rachel Wheat and Yiwei Wang: Crowdsourcing for research
Grad students turn to a crowdfunding website to fund their bald eagle research.
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Uncommon People / Juan Ledesma: Persistence and faith
Juan Ledesma, the son of agriculture laborers, arrived in Santa Cruz from Hartnell Junior College with a $25,000 S-STEM scholarship from the National Science Foundation, and a love for physics and medicine.
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Working hand in hand
Every year, hundreds of UCSC student interns and volunteers do important work in the community that surrounds them.
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Road to ’65: Creating a design for the new campus
This second installment in our series of stories leading up to a celebration of UCSC’s 50th anniversary looks at the early architectural plans that were taking shape 50 years ago.
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Slug Stand-Up lets students express themselves through comedy
The four members of UCSC’s Slug Stand-Up comedy squad bare their souls while trying to keep stage-fright in check, but they say everything is worth it just to make people laugh.
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The Rosa Parks African American Theme House: Discovering similarities, embracing differences
Students from diverse backgrounds learn about struggles of race, gender, and class while becoming a family to each other.
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Crafting a way to help those less fortunate
After witnessing a tragic incident, UCSC student Radhika Mitra founded a nonprofit that aims to give artisans in developing countries the tools they need to be financially successful.
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Overcoming the odds: Student learned English by playing video games
The son of migrant workers, Juan Morales’s path to UC Santa Cruz was anything but typical.
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Making people laugh: Slug Stand-Up lets students express themselves through comedy
The members of UCSC’s Slug Stand-Up squad get down to the serious business of stand-up comedy.
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Students help local teens navigate the college admission process
The undergrad-led program UCAN aims to help high school students negotiate the sometimes tricky path to higher education.
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Type and literature and poetry
UCSC’s Cowell Press, a decades-old program, uses hands-on creativity to teach students the traditional arts of typography and printing.