Wherein we discuss coastal fog and mercury in mountain lions, pushing back against deficit thinking, the campus's new Center for the Middle East and North Africa, sea otters recolonizing San Francisco Bay, a boost for Slug Support, and sponsorship from Amazon to develop a "socialbot" that can talk with humans. Staffers Gwen Jourdonnais and Dan White break down the recent UCSC news.

Undergraduate researcher Janely Cardenas, a member of the UC Santa Cruz Culture and Achievement Collaborative, combats harmful perceptions many first-generation students experience.

Wherein we discuss UC Santa Cruz's ascension into the ranks of the AAU, Girls Who Code's College Loops program, imagining a landscape without prisons, the importance of recess, diversity in science journalism, and our powerful new supercomputer, which unfortunately does not make avocado toast.

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.

Wherein we discuss our epic adventure to San Francisco for a Kitchen Sisters podcasting workshop, elephant seal supermoms, young activists, rankings, the Genomic Institute's move to the Wes'side, no more plastic bags at the Bay Tree, and Colson Whitehead's reading of his latest novel. Communications staffers Gwen Jourdonnais and Dan White go over all the recent news.

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.

Wherein we discuss 2019 admissions numbers, a recent honor for Professor Emerita Angela Davis, a new book on the military coup in Honduras, and artificial intelligence to help understand the secret life of animals. Communications staffers Gwen J. and Dan W. go over recent UC Santa Cruz news highlights.

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.

Wherein we discuss Cosmological Koans, the polar bears of plants, a win-win student program, UCSC's first feminist studies Ph.D.s, white dwarfs, beaked whales, and a very cool arts internship program! Communications staffers Gwen Jourdonnais and Dan White go over recent highlights in UC Santa Cruz news and our Arts Department colleague Maureen Dixon Harrison gives an update on the arts scene.

Recent highlights in UC Santa Cruz news with communications staffers Gwen Jourdonnais and Dan White, along with an arts events preview with our Arts Department colleague Maureen Dixon Harrison!