Campus News

  • Daniel Garcia

    Daniel Garcia

    Daniel Garcia is looking forward to going to grad school and having a career in education, either as a professor or directing a program that provides equal opportunities for students no matter who they are or where they came from.

  • Felix Vazquez

    Felix Vazquez

    If Felix Vazquez had to title his four years at UC Santa Cruz, he said they would be called, “A Series of Fortunate Events.”

  • Protecting vulnerable children and families during the pandemic

    Protecting vulnerable children and families during the pandemic

    In addition to experiencing higher rates of COVID-19 infection and death, the most vulnerable among us are losing ground in schooling, learning, and development, according to the authors of a new policy brief aimed at lawmakers.

  • Jocelyn Lopez-Anleu

    Jocelyn Lopez-Anleu

    Jocelyn Lopez-Anleu was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles and is the first member in her family to leave home and attend a four-year university.

  • Raynier Ramos

    Raynier Ramos

    After four years, the honors student with a double major in legal studies and history of art and visual culture (HAVC) is back in San Diego now where he plans to attend law school in the fall.

  • Joyce Lin

    Joyce Lin

    Joyce Lin designs whimsical and inclusive games—queer games Lin lovingly calls “gaymes.”

  • Marian Avila-Breach

    Marian Avila-Breach

    When Marian Avila-Breach, 25, transferred from a community college to UC Santa Cruz, she thought she knew what was in store for her during the next two years.

  • Zaire Armstrong

    Zaire Armstrong, 22, is this year’s winner of the David A. Kadish Humanities Scholarship Award, which recognizes deserving students with a strong interest in the study of humanities.

  • Dana Byrne

    Dana Byrne

    Dana Byrne is the kind of person who likes to get answers. So it was a natural fit for her to gravitate to chemistry as a field of study.

  • Max Tarlov

    Max Tarlov

    Max Tarlov, 21, already had his major in mind when he started out at UC Santa Cruz. But a class called Syntax 1 deepened his engagement with linguistics, while helping him to develop critical thinking skills.

  • UCSC faculty and alumni win Rydell Visual Arts Fellowships from Santa Cruz Community Foundation

    UCSC faculty and alumni win Rydell Visual Arts Fellowships from Santa Cruz Community Foundation

    A dance lecturer and two alumni from the UC Santa Cruz Arts Division have been awarded Rydell Visual Arts Fellowships for 2020 and 2021 from Community Foundation Santa Cruz County.

  • Astronomers create cloud atlas for hot, Jupiter-like exoplanets

    Astronomers create cloud atlas for hot, Jupiter-like exoplanets

    Giant planets in our solar system and circling other stars have exotic clouds unlike anything on Earth, and the gas giants orbiting close to their stars—so called hot Jupiters—boast the most extreme.

Last modified: Mar 18, 2025