Featured Profiles
Power Partnerships, a WiSE Tip from Dr. Shaila Kotadia and Dr. Carley Corrado
April 19, 2024
Excellence in Action: Celebrating UCSC’s 2023 Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award Recipients
May 16, 2023
Now in its seventh year, the Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award welcomes its 2023 cohort.
Cancer Treatment and Science Communication - Two Important Goals for Alumna Tori Klein
January 13, 2022
From speaking to k-12 students and audiences at competitions, to working on ways to penetrate cancer cells - Tori Klein wants to find ways to improve human life inside and outside of the laboratory.
Scholar Spotlight - Nerea Lezama Ochoa
November 15, 2021
Nerea Lezama-Ochoa is a marine biologist from the Basque Country (Spain), working as a UCSC postdoc at the Environmental Research Division (ERD), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Monterey.
Get to know International Scholar Oskar Elek
October 14, 2019
Oskar Elek, an international scholar, started as a postdoctoral researcher at UC Santa Cruz in the winter of 2019. Elek is a computational media researcher in assistant professor Angus Forbes’ Creative Coding lab.
Q&A with Alfredo Reyes, Education PhD Student
May 25, 2018
The graduate student reflects on his research interests in Education, his path to graduate school, and plans for the future.
Jaclyn Schultz, How Children Lived in the 19th Century
December 8, 2017
The PhD Candidate is researching the ways children in the United States in the 1800s were taught to participate in the economy.
Searching for Clues in the Archives, Stephanie Montgomery
June 13, 2017
How a graduate student pursued hints and traces from history in search of a research topic.
The sky is no limit for planet-hunting grad student
June 07, 2016
Astronomy grad student Jennifer Burt helped write software that turned a powerful telescope at Lick Observatory into the first automated planet finder in the world.
A Passion for The Ocean, Emma Hiolski
June 6, 2016
The PhD Candidate talks about her interest in understanding the food web of the ocean, and how it affects human health.
Smoke signals
May 18, 2016
Graduate student Eric Crosbie's research delves into cigarette packaging and why some countries have been able to legislate tobacco warning labels while others haven't.
Drought helps predict how climate change might affect an endangered species
May 04, 2016
A study documenting the effects of California's drought on an endangered lizard provides a glimpse into the future.
Percolating ideas
April 25, 2016
Earth Sciences Graduate Student Sarah Beganskas on stormwater runoff, its important role in drought recovery and resistance.
Rick Flores, Curator, Graduate Student
March 8, 2016
After assisting an indigenous group's pursuit of revitalization, Rick Flores decided he wanted to learn more - and do more - about it.
Rachel Cypher's IGHERT Experience
January 13, 2016
Interdisciplinarity & Professional Development: Anthropology Graduate Student Rachel Cypher reflects on her experience in the Andrew Mellon Foundation's IGHERT pilot program
Classical Problems, Modern Theater
December 3, 2015
Stephen Richter explores the essentials of human existence in his role as playwright and graduate student in the Literature program at UC Santa Cruz.
Graduate Students, Game Designers, Storytellers
November 2, 2015
Adrian Philips and Benjamin Spalding on making virtual stories, and what brought them to the DANM program at UC Santa Cruz.
Social Justice and Agriculture; Jenny Lovell Makes the Connections
October 1, 2015
The doctoral candidate's professional and educational career brought her to UCSC in pursuit of interdisciplinary solutions.
Art, Science, Symbiosis with Juniper Harrower
August 17, 2015
Environmental Studies Graduate Student talks about her research in ecology, climate change, and symbiosis.
Mary Thomas, Visual Studies Graduate Student, Traveling Art Historian
May 11, 2015
Thomas' fellowship took her on a five-week journey in search of publicly-engaged art.
Grad Profile: Michael Nayak
March 24, 2015
How the future of the satellite industry is guiding my graduate career in the Earth & Planetary Sciences program
Grad's Speech Therapy Game Aims to Help Kids and Teachers Alike
December 12, 2014
Five Questions with Graduate Student Alumnus Bruce Aidells (PhD, Biology)
May 8, 2014
Bruce Aidells talks cooking, writing and the importance of being open to whatever opportunities present themselves during grad school.
Five Questions with Graduate Student Stephen Sepaniak (PhD, Sociology)
March 26, 2014
Graduate student in sociology answers questions about his research and the current drought crisis in California.
Q & A With Graduate Student Kelly Gola
November 13, 2013
The Ph.D. Candidate researches storytelling patterns in focal neurodegenerative disease groups.
Q&A With Artist, Alumna Laura C. Wright
October 29, 2013
Artist and DANM MFA alumna answers questions about her inspiration and the program's influence on her development.