Wherein communications staffers Gwen and Dan go over our experts' current views and guidance on COVID and the road ahead; a new discovery in mammoth DNA; changes for the campus bookstore; fall 2021 plans; a big anniversary for the African American Theater Arts Troupe; ways to get your groove on during COVID times; and more!

Music by Podington Bear and Artlist.

UCSC News Roundup Podcast March 9, 2021: COVID and us

Wherein we discuss UCSC's first student to go to the Olympics; the incoming fall 2021 class; UC's vaccine policy; new leadership at the Seymour Center; pumas!!; and an epic Dickens Universe. Also, how tired we are of COVID. Staffers Gwen and Dan go over recent UCSC news. 

Some music by Podington Bear.

UCSC News Roundup Podcast August 3, 2021: Blazing a Slug trail to the Olympics!

Wherein we discuss a campus COVID hero, telling the stories of the girls of color in California's Central Valley, a peripatetic mammoth, rejuvenating the aging brain, and much more.

Communications staffers Gwen and Dan go over the latest UCSC news.

UCSC News Roundup Podcast August 17, 2021: A peripatetic mammoth

Communications staffers Gwen and Dan take a field trip to a local high school to talk to the students about podcasting—and have them help record this episode! We also talk about fall move-in, a new genomics center, educational equity, the first-ever Downtown Day, and much more.

Music from Artlist. Transcript available upon request.

UCSC News Roundup Podcast October 7, 2021: Back to class

In which we first mention some super prestigious awards, then discuss Visualizing Abolition, a prison abolition project, which recently received a big grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Then we go on to a TED talk on body ideals, the very first arts convocation, and much more.

UCSC News Roundup Podcast November 1, 2021: Exploring a society without prisons

In which we first welcome Dan back from a health scare, then discuss an incredible story of connection and redemption, UCSC's recognition for its green efforts, a program that teaches how the Amah Mutsun tribe worked with native plants, and the effect of a rainy weekend on controlling coronavirus. Then we go on to discuss finding an ancient mammoth tusk in the most unexpected of places!?, and much more. Communications staffers Gwen and Dan go over recent UCSC news.

UCSC News Roundup Podcast January 11, 2022: Coffee, connection, and redemption

Wherein we discuss voter suppression and lessons we can apply from the civil rights movement; research on circadian rhythms; Afrofuturism; the puzzling recent scarcity of Wheat Thins; and much more.

Communications staffers Gwen and Dan go over recent UC Santa Cruz News. 

Transcript available upon request.

UCSC News Roundup Podcast February 11, 2022: 'Awaken to the call of democracy'

Wherein we discuss a big mentoring award; the cautious optimism of a hybrid virtual and in-person Alumni Week; elephant seals' built-in GPS systems, which Gwen covets (and Dan gets a little size-ist about our beloved chubby pinnipeds); The Deeeep Read; and much more. 

Communications staffers Gwen and Dan discuss recent UCSC news. 

You may request a transcript by emailing gwenj@ucsc.edu.

UCSC News Roundup Podcast March 15, 2022: Inching back to normalcy with Alumni Week

Recorded at Stockwell Cellars, Santa Cruz, California, on September 18, 2015.

Student move-in 2015 StoryCruz: The Colemans

Dan Killam and Carolyn Branecky, both of the Earth and Planetary Science Department, discuss their research and why they were sharing it. 


Graduate Research Symposium StoryCruz: Daniel Killam and Carolyn Branecky

Jason Ostrove, a linguistics student, presented his research on an indigenous language of Mexico and his work to figure out how to write the language down, since it currently has no writing system. 


Graduate Research Symposium StoryCruz: Jason Ostrove

Maho Morimoto of the Linguistics Department and Daniel Alves of Computer Engineering speak of their research on communication. 


Graduate Research Symposium StoryCruz: Maho Morimoto And Daniel Alves

Paulo Quadri of the Environmental Studies Department and Eric Garcia of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program talked of how they appreciated presenting at the symposium because it offered them the chance to see a diversity of work from other departments and field unexpected questions. 


Graduate Research Symposium StoryCruz: Paulo Quadri And Eric Garcia

Alumni Weekend 2016 StoryCruz: Diana Alfaro

Chuck Davis, the architect who built UC Santa Cruz's acclaimed Science & Engineering Library, sits down for a conversation with his son, Hayden—a 2014 graduate—on the evolving use of the library as plans shape up for a renovation of the iconic space. (Music by Lee Rosevere)

Chuck And Hayden Davis Science & Engineering Library podcast

StoryCruz interviews new freshmen in fall 2016 to find out how the first few weeks of classes and life on campus have been.

Freshman interviews - StoryCruz

Crochet Coral Reef is a massive participatory art project that has expanded to include “satellite coral reef” projects worldwide. One of those satellites has been established at UC Santa Cruz, and hundreds of students and area residents have contributed to a satellite reef, which will go on display at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center starting on May 4, 2017. Narration and editing by Loukas Stelyn; interviews by Dan White; editing by Gwen Jourdonnais. Photo © the IFF

Crochet Coral Reef - campus crochet circle StoryCruz

Our podcast catches up with new grad Hector Navarro, a first-generation college student who's now off to big things. Podcast by J.D. Hillard.

First-generation stories: Graduated, and off to UCLA to continue cancer research

Communications staff members Gwen Jourdonnais and Dan White go over some recent highlights in UC Santa Cruz news.

UC Santa Cruz Weekly News Roundup March 2 2018

What's new in Dickens studies? Take a journey to the 2018 Dickens Universe to find out! Communications staffers Gwen Jourdonnais, Dan White, and J.D. Hillard spent an afternoon chatting with the director of the Dickens Project, going to an afternoon tea, attending Dickensian seminars, and learning Victorian dance—all part of a weeklong annual celebration of the beloved British author Charles Dickens (1812–1870), whose writing remains remarkably relevant today.

Dickens Universe 2018 Audio Sketch

J. Herman Blake, the visionary founding provost of Oakes College, returned to campus for a momentous occasion: the rededication of the Oakes Provost House in his honor. On campus, he shared recollections of Oakes College before a crowd of well-wishers, including his family and former colleagues.

Oakes Renaming Ceremony Podcast AM

Diana Alvarado (Merrill ‘19, marine biology) takes drone photographs of female elephant seals at Año Nuevo Natural Reserve. She’s refining an image analysis tool that might enable scientists to easily track seals’ weight without disturbing them.

Can a drone weigh an elephant seal?

Wherein communications staffers Gwen J. and Dan W. discuss whether plants can think, a new Southeast Asia research center, big cats' fear of humans, Barnaby Rudge and a tale of two riots, the passing of an arts icon, and the dangers of overdoing it on the tuna.

UCSC News Roundup Podcast July 22, 2019

Wherein we interview visiting alumna Stephanie Foo, a writer and radio producer who spent several years at This American Life, where she produced dozens of radio stories and an Emmy-winning video short. She is currently working on a book about healing from Complex PTSD.

UCSC News Roundup Podcast - Stephanie Foo - Feb. 26, 2020

Wherein we discuss campus response to coronavirus, from alumni on the front lines to pivoting 1,500 instructors to teaching online within days. Communications staffers Gwen and Dan go over the news.

UCSC News Roundup Podcast March 30, 2020

Wherein we continue sharing the impressive ways UC Santa Cruz is combating COVID-19. Communications staffers Gwen and Dan go over the news. 

Music by Podington Bear.

UCSC News Roundup Podcast April 13, 2020

In the inaugural Arts Division podcast, host Maureen Dixon Harrison speaks with arts students about the meaning of the rapid shift to remote learning in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

UCSC Arts Division — impact of COVID-19

Wherein we discuss  what UCSC is doing to help combat and manage COVID-19. Communications staffers Gwen and Dan go over the recent news. 

Opening music by Podington Bear.

UCSC News Roundup Podcast May 26, 2020

Wherein we discuss UC's new president, how to protect yourself from COVID, a new research center on supplements, a new book from Karen Tei Yamashita, first-gen student family achievement guilt, and a virtual Shakespeare summer series. 

Communications staffers Gwen and Dan go over recent news from UC Santa Cruz and remember the carefree days of eating in restaurants and strolling leisurely about with wistful nostalgia.

UCSC News Roundup Podcast July 17, 2020

Wherein we discuss the campus's ongoing work to combat COVID-19, fidget spinner research, social wearables to spark girls' interest in computing, the complete sequence of a human X chromosome, and a virtual Dickens Universe, among other things. 

Communications staffers Gwen and Dan bring you the news while social distancing.

UCSC News Roundup Podcast August 19, 2020

Wherein communications staffers Gwen and Dan go over the news about the CZU Lightning Complex Fire and its impact on campus.

UCSC News Roundup Podcast September 8, 2020: Fire on the Mountain

We tell the stories of UC Santa Cruz, from bright minds, impassioned movements, and impactful research to tales of endearing quirkiness.

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