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)

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)

Alumni Weekend 2016 StoryCruz: Anthony Palavi by UC Santa Cruz

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Alumni Weekend 2016 StoryCruz: Karyn Sapon Anderson by UC Santa Cruz

Alumni Weekend 2016 StoryCruz: Diana Alfaro by UC Santa Cruz

Paulo Quadri of the Environmental Studies Department and Eric Garcia of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program talked of how they appreciated presenting at the symposium because it offered them the chance to see a diversity of work from other departments and field unexpected questions.

Maho Morimoto of the Linguistics Department and Daniel Alves of Computer Engineering speak of their research on communication.

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.

Dan Killam and Carolyn Branecky, both of the Earth and Planetary Science Department, discuss their research and why they were sharing it.