Featured Profiles
- February 23, 2012
New Skin for Sammy
Sammy the Slug has been the infamous mascot of UCSC since an overwhelming student-driven request to the Chancellor in 1986.
- January 12, 2012
Kevin Beggs, Porter Alum '89, Lionsgate Television Group President
“The term ‘critical thinking’ is thrown around loosely, but UCSC really pushes that….You don’t just turn that off when you leave college.”
- October 13, 2011
Julia Sweig, '86 Porter Alum, Named UCSC Distinguished Alumni of 2011
UCSC's interdisciplinary Latin American Studies program provided ideal preparation for her career.
- August 8, 2011
UCSC Porter '90 alum Gillian Welch does it again
While at UCSC Welch played bass in a goth band, and drums in a psychedelic surf band. One day a roommate played an album by a bluegrass band and she had an epiphany: I just stood up and walked into the other room as if I was in a tractor beam and stood in front of the stereo. It was just as powerful as the electric stuff, and it was songs I'd grown up singing. All of a sudden I'd found my music.
- May 6, 2011
Maya K. Rudolph
One might not be aware that Porter Alum Maya K. Rudolph of Saturday Night Live fame started her multi-faceted career as a musician with her first band, Supersauce, formed here at UCSC.
- February 24, 2011
Kent Nagano
Porter Alum Kent Nagano has received his third Grammy Award. He attributes "UCSC's unique structure [which} placed exceptional scholars in close working relationships with students" as an important part of his journey.
- January 20, 2011
Randall P. Grahm
Porter graduate, founder of Bonny Doon Vineyard, remains a puer aeternus which he says sometimes happens to UCSC alumni
- December 9, 2010
Cynthia Thickpenny
Porter Grad - 2nd Student in UCSC history to be honored with a Marshall Scholarship!
- October 7, 2010
George Hitchcock: In Memoriam
“...Through his own work as a poet, actor, director, publisher, teacher, and later through his generosity and vision as a donor, George Hitchcock empowered multiple generations of innovative poets.” Provost D.E. Jones
