Campus News
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Philanthropy Focus: Names of Fame
The names of UC Santa Cruz’s unique colleges, buildings, and centers may seem natural and inevitable, as much a part of the campus’s landscape as its famous towering redwood trees and rambling meadows. But each name evokes a surprising story.
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New managing director brings business and scientific expertise to the Genomics Institute
Ravi Jain will oversee the institute’s strategic planning, business development, and operations, among other responsibilities.
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AlumnEye
Dale “Eddie” Kinnamon had to stop to try to capture the most spectacular sunset he havd ever witnessed.
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About the cover
Catherine Ramírez, associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies and director of the campus’s Chicano Latino Research Center, is among the hundreds of UC Santa Cruz faculty whose bold ideas push boundaries and challenge assumptions.
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The Campaign for UC Santa Cruz: Campaign update
As our campus celebrates 50 years of original thinking and questioning authority, the Campaign for UC Santa Cruz is building resources for its future.
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Fall ’15 Review credits
UC Santa Cruz Review Fall 2015 University of California Santa Cruz Chancellor George Blumenthal Vice Chancellor, University Relations Keith E. Brant Assistant Vice Chancellor, Communications and Marketing Sherry L.K. Main UC Santa Cruz Review Fall 2015 Editor Gwen Jourdonnais Creative Director Lisa Nielsen Art Director/Designer Linda Knudson (Cowell ’76) Associate Editor Dan White Proofreader Jeanne…
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Memories
The spring ’15 UC Santa Cruz Review magazine—the first of two commemorative issues this year celebrating UC Santa Cruz’s 50th anniversary—opened the memory floodgates for alumni and friends, some of whom wrote in with detailed descriptions of how the campus enriched and changed their lives.
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Editor’s note: The kids are alright
Alumni descended upon UC Santa Cruz in unprecedented numbers for UC Santa Cruz’s 50th anniversary Alumni Weekend in April. You asked questions in the classrooms, fired up your minds during lectures, and lingered over fine wines and plates of good food. And you brought your kids.
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Celebrate 50 years young
UC Santa Cruz started in 1965 as an unconventional place that pushed against the stodginess of educational institutions, a place where innovation—no matter how messy—was part of the campus’s DNA. Our celebrations of the campus’s 50th anniversary—a year of festivities, reunions, talks, and collaborations—have been sensational successes.
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Astronomer Claire Max appointed director of UC Observatories
UC President Janet Napolitano has appointed UC Santa Cruz astronomer Claire Max as director of UC Observatories.

