Author: Peggy Townsend
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Craft becomes art for celebrated Kiowa artist and alumna
Alumna Teri Greeves uses the traditional skill of beadworking to tell stories in new ways, to create a new language that draws people together.
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Dancing biologist finds inspiration in both art and science
For Xochitl Clare it’s easy to see a link between a 4,000-pound pinniped and a boisterous form of Cuban dance — a very real relationship between art and science.
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Alumni Profile / 1984: Barbara Garcia: Health mission
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.
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Banana Slug Parade brings campus, community together
The “first-on-the-planet” procession was a whimsical and entertaining celebration of UC Santa Cruz’s five-decades-long residence in Santa Cruz.
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Bridging science and tradition
A dedicated group of scientists has launched One People One Reef, a five-year conservation effort on Ulithi Atoll in Micronesia aimed at sustaining the ecological health of the islands—and the islanders
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Big ideas
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.
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Picture this: An app for blind photographers
Grad student Dustin Adams, who works in UC Santa Cruz’s Interactive Systems for Individuals with Special Needs lab, designed a tool to recognize and describe photos.
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No reason to retire
In their 70s and 80s, many pioneer faculty are still working on campus—for the chance to open students’ eyes, for the excitement of discovery, and for the love of teaching.
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Iron Will
As a veteran marathoner and Iron Man competitor, Mary Zavanelli is used to competition. Now she’s facing down her most formidable opponent of all: an ALS diagnosis.
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Pumas, raccoons and snakes, oh my
UC Santa Cruz students can walk out of a classroom and, in a few minutes, be in the same territory with nearly 50 species of mammals, legions of birds, and scores of salamanders, newts and snakes.
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Pister Award winner rises from poverty, works to save lives
Khanh Nguyen is heading to UC Santa Cruz to study biochemistry. He hopes to become a doctor for the World Health Organization.
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Tearing down the walls
Pioneering UC Santa Cruz professors and staff challenged convention and traditional academics. In the process, they helped reform American higher education.