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

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

Alumni Weekend 2016 StoryCruz: Diana Alfaro

Alumni Weekend 2016 StoryCruz: Anthony Palavi

A micro "podcast" with alumna Julie Snyder for the Founders Celebration 2016 email invitation. UC Santa Cruz alumna Julie Snyder(Kresge '95, politics), former senior producer of popular radio show This American Life and co-creator of the runaway podcast hit Serial, talks about how her time at UC Santa Cruz helped inspire her career in broadcasting. Snyder is returning to UC Santa Cruz to be awarded the Alumni Achievement Award at the campus's Founders Celebration 2016. (Music by Lee Rosevere)

Julie Snyder podcast for Founders e-invitation

An audio tribute to Founders Celebration 2016 Alumni Achievement Award winner Julie Snyder, former senior producer of This American Life and co-creator of the hit podcast Serial. Featuring famous This American Life and podcast voices including Ira Glass, Alex Blumberg, Brian Reed, Nancy Updike, Chana Joffe-Walt, and more. Produced by Stephanie Foo (Stevenson ‘08, modern literature), This American Life.

Julie Snyder podcast tribute—Founders Celebration dinner 2016

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

Under the watchful eye of yoga and swimming instructor Julie Kimball, UC Santa Cruz students who never learned to swim are stroking and kicking their way across the OPERS pool in beginning swim class—teaching them to slow down, be persistent, and appreciate the serenity of water. Interviews by podcast intern Loukas Stelyn; editing and production by J.D. Hillard.

Swim class podcast

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

Among the fans who celebrated the 50th anniversary of UC Santa Cruz's Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems  in July were several generations of graduates of the pioneering apprenticeship program.

Generations of UC Santa Cruz Farm and Garden Apprentices

Students in AP literature at the Foshay Learning Center in South LA performed scenes from "Middlemarch" as part of a partnership between UC Santa Cruz's Dickens Project and the University of Southern California's Neighborhood Academic Initiative. Some of the cast members made a special guest appearance at the Dickens Universe at UC Santa Cruz this summer.

Los Angeles teens tackle Middlemarch.  7.57 AM

In its 50th season, UC Santa Cruz's men's rugby team aims for the conference win.

Slug Rugby Turns 50

Communications staff members Gwen Jourdonnais and Dan White go over some of the past week's highlights in UC Santa Cruz news.

UC Santa Cruz Weekly News Roundup Jan 12 2018

In its second year as a fully student-driven event, CruzHacks 2018 provided an environment that encouraged collaboration and networking.

CruzHacks Draws Coders from Across the U.S.

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

Alumni who gathered on campus for Alumni Weekend 2018 talk to us about how it feels to come back and what UC Santa Cruz has meant in their lives.

Voices from Alumni Weekend 2018

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

Wherein we cover strawberry fields (forever? ... not sure), a pause in the apprenticeship at CASFS, counting critters at Año Nuevo, research rankings, and an alumna's documentary on Ursula K. Le Guin. Communications staffers Gwen Jourdonnais and Dan White go over some of the recent news from UC Santa Cruz.

UCSC News Roundup Podcast August 30, 2019

Wherein we discuss a major gift to the Genomics Institute, an infusion of funding for basic needs programs, a new use for Viagra, the new Human Rights Lab, fighting hunger with synthetic biology, the Kresge renewal, and upcoming events! Communications staffers Gwen Jourdonnais and Dan White go over news from the past few weeks.

UCSC News Roundup Podcast October 22, 2019

First-gen student Reina Garay-Solis is doing undergraduate research to help identify common challenges for first-gen and underrepresented students and find effective institutional practices to address them.

Finding solutions

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. Music by Podington Bear.

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

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.

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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