Name: Finding solutions by UC Santa Cruz
Duration: 2 min 7 s
Description: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Finding solutions

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