Category: alumni
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Chemical reaction
Bonnie Garmus (Rachel Carson ’79, aesthetic studies/creative writing), author of the smash-hit novel Lessons in Chemistry, drew on many lessons learned at UC Santa Cruz on her way to finding the formula for success.
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From the sea to the stars
Kathryn Sullivan (Cowell ’73, Earth sciences) has gone places that most humans will never see in their lifetime. Sullivan was the first American woman to walk in space, the first woman to reach the deepest point of the ocean floor, and the only person to ever do both. She was enshrined in the National Aviation…
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Creating a beacon for students
As a member of UCSC’s pioneering class in 1965, Bill Dickinson (Cowell ’68, philosophy) is considered to be the first former foster youth to attend the university. Over three decades later, he founded the Page and Eloise Smith Scholastic Society at UC Santa Cruz to support students who, like him, arrived on campus with little…
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Championing access and diversity in higher education
With a long history in California leadership and politics, and as one of the students in the second graduating class at UC Santa Cruz, Art Torres (Stevenson ’68, politics) brought a distinctive perspective to discussions among members of the UC Board of Regents.