Class of 2020, developing quantum materials, Seymour Center shutdown, Alumna Kathy Sullivan dives to the ocean’s deepest point, jobs, and more...
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JUNE 2020

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This month in science: Class of 2020, developing quantum materials, Seymour Center shutdown, Alumna Kathy Sullivan dives to the ocean’s deepest point, jobs, and more...

Class of 2020 congratulatory illustration with a sunset and hands tossing graduation hats into the air.

It has been a very different final year for our graduating Banana Slugs, and through it all they have persevered. To celebrate our new alumni as they shelter-in-place, UC Santa Cruz has created a special website to wish them the best as they embark on their next journey in life.

 

Want to get to know our graduates? Here are a few featured profiles from our division:

 

IMPACTFUL RESEARCH

Extensional faults (arrows) on the surface of Pluto indicate expansion of the dwarf planet’s icy crust, attributed to freezing of a subsurface ocean. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker)

NATURE GEOSCIENCE

Graph of relaxation times of holes in two systems without inversion symmetry.

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS

SEYMOUR CENTER
WEATHERS SHUTDOWN

Our Seymour Marine Discovery Center was planning a big visitor experience refresh this year before COVID-19 closed its doors in March. Now, in the midst of a global pandemic, the center is forced to answer even bigger questions before reopening.

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IMPACTFUL PEOPLE

Photo of Kathy Sullivan (Stephen Voss, for Time)

AWARDS & HONORS

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IMPACTFUL GIVING

Photo of humpback whale feeding by Dan Costa.
Photo of microscope research by Elena Zhukova
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