September 2021

UC Santa Cruz Voice

Dear readers,

Following the UC Santa Cruz tradition of embracing change and building a better future, the campus is implementing new e-newsletter names and graphics to reflect a new academic year, a fresh start, and an opportunity for UCSC to affirm what we stand for now and always have—giving voice to people through research and education.

As such, this e-newsletter has an updated name: UC Santa Cruz Voice.

UC Santa Cruz Voice will continue along the journey the UC Santa Cruz monthly e-newsletter started, filled with inspirational stories that show the impact of this campus—how students and faculty are finding their voice, their agency, and bringing their ideas, innovation, and energy to the community and the world. The issues will also continue to include news, events, and opportunities.

We hope you enjoy the new name and, of course, this issue.

Best wishes and Go Slugs!

UC Santa Cruz Alumni Communications

An outpouring of support for stranded scholars

A fundraising campaign founded in response to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan raised almost $250,000 as part of ongoing efforts to bring Afghan thought leaders and their families to safety on the UC Santa Cruz campus.

ALSO FEATURED

The future of drought management

UC Santa Cruz experts share insights on how technological innovations and long-term policy vision could help protect water supply.

A star (nursery) is born

Astronomers can’t touch the stars they study, but astrophysicist Nia Imara is using 3D models that fit in the palm of her hand to unravel the structural complexities of stellar nurseries, the vast clouds of gas and dust where star formation occurs.

STORYCRUZ

Hear! Hear!

Get your UC Santa Cruz news while you’re driving to work or doing the dishes. Find our podcasts–including a regular news roundup, interviews, story companions, and original reports–on Stitcher.

ALUMNI UPDATES

Nicholas St. Fleur, SciCom class of 2014 (Photo by Miranda Stratton)

The art of science reporting

Nicholas St. Fleur, a 2014 graduate of UCSC's Science Communication Program, received the top annual prize in the U.S. for young science journalists.

Serving the nation

Alumna Kathryn Sullivan (Cowell ’73, Earth sciences) has been appointed by President Biden to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

Calling all Banana Slugs! Alumni survey coming soon

Hey alums! Keep your eye out for an alumni survey in your inbox soon. This is your opportunity to let us know what we're doing well, and what you’d like to see more of. Your responses will help us improve our alumni programs, and develop new ways to better serve you and keep you connected to your alma mater.