When Rich Vicenti and Alesa Lightbourne were students at Cowell College in the 1970s, he courted, but she was not available. Then they graduated and took separate paths. They were both single nearly four decades after their last dance at UC Santa Cruz. She was in Iraq, learning firsthand about the struggles of Kurdish women when they reconnected on Facebook. Over the internet, they finally began the romance that was not possible in their youth.

UC Santa Cruz Weekly News Roundup Feb 2 2018 by UC Santa Cruz

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

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

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

Nadim Abu-Hashmeh (Oakes '17, Earth science) spent his senior year modeling changes on the surface of Pluto—the opportunity to do original research is one reason he chose UC Santa Cruz. Now with help from a special endowment, he will present his findings to the American Geophysical Union.

A bit nervous, mostly excited, new students and their parents arrived on the UC Santa Cruz campus to move into the rooms they'll live in for their first year of university life.

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.

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.

One pivotal moment in Professor Barry Bowman's research of the complex molecule V-ATPase came in his living room...