UC Santa Cruz |
Stranger Things VR game directed by UCSC’s Samantha Gorman launches in partnership with Netflix, Meta
Players explore the psychological horror/action game as the villain Vecna, pursuing new and never-seen-before perspectives on the Netflix series.
UCLA |
Life in the FAST Lane
How a feisty student IG account turned into the style arbiter of campus.
UC Newsroom |
Digging, diving and discovering stories untold
Once a dream of two plucky UC scholars, the Society of Black Archaeologists has become a force for change.
UCLA Magazine |
Looking for the legendary ‘missing link’
How a UCLA computer scientist discovered a missing link in the long and tangled story of human evolution.
UC Santa Barbara |
Democracy is more fragile than you think
The rise in authoritarian attitudes is coming from the right and the left.
UC Irvine |
‘You Are What You Eat’: How a nutritional study made it to the Netflix screen
Researcher and dietitian Dr. Matt Landry served as first author on a study that made its way to a new documentary.
UC San Diego |
UC San Diego composer Anthony Davis inducted into the Opera Hall of Fame
A Pulitzer prize-winning musician who has written eight operas thus far, Davis is unafraid to spotlight some of society’s most pervasive problems in the form.
UC Merced |
Ph.D. student pushes for better education benefits for veterans’ dependents
Karla Seijas’ passion for identifying and removing obstacles faced by military veterans and their families has turned into a new state law.
UC San Diego |
Forbes’ 30 Under 30’s Abby Sherlock ’19 talks gaming, mentorship and defying stereotypes
Abby Sherlock, a video game producer and a 2019 graduate of UC San Diego, recently was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 list.
UCLA Magazine |
The time traveler: Eddie Cole on affirmative action and this moment in history
With affirmative action under attack, historian Eddie Cole ponders the past — his own, and the country’s — as American higher education barrels toward an uncertain future.
UC Santa Cruz |
Finding her voice: Farnaz Fatemi's poetry explores language, borders and selfhood with an emphasis on her Iranian American identity
Alumna and Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate reflects on her academic journey and career.
UCLA |
UCLA creates first disability studies major at a California public university
New program launched thanks in part to overwhelming popularity of the campus’s existing minor.