Crown in the News
Crown's Instructor, Lisa Berkley wins Teaching Excellence Award
Crown College Lecturer, Lisa Berkley, has been awarded the prestigious Teaching Excellence Award for her extraordinary pedagogical creativity and dedication in support of student resiliency. This UCSC campus recognition honors instructors who have demonstrated exemplary and inspiring teaching. Lisa was only one of eight faculty to receive this award this year, from 370 student nominations.
To learn more about Lisa’s teaching please see: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1pOXPiuUGFQhrHT15GZOng?si=ba80f7ba2fae4b32
Crown Remembers Dr. Thimann
Dr. Kenneth V. Thimann was the Founding Provost of Crown College when the Class of 1974 arrived in Fall 1970. Class of ‘74 remembers him as they look at photos from that time and listen to Dr. Thimann once again via recordings from UCSC Special Collections.
Crown Celebrates Teaching with Tim Fitzmaurice
Tim Fitzmaurice, one of Crown College’s most admired lecturers for 40+ years, explored with students and alumni the interface between science, ethics and imagination as they relate to freedom.
Crown College Prison Panel Plenary
Four formerly incarcerated people talk about the technology of prison, discuss their personal transformation and the critical role that creative work played in it, and share their art, including a LEGO model of San Quentin Prison, to an audience of over one hundred students.
Crown in Ireland: Podcasts from CRWN98 Summer 2023
Learn about pub culture, real fairies, family dairy farming facing the future, and how that fish got on your plate. Listen to the podcasts…
Fiat Lux Award celebrates three Crown alums for their dedication to Crown College
On October 27, the UCSC Fiat Lux award was presented to Lisa Rose, Susan (Su) Nerton, and Jim Lapsley for their multi-year dedication to Crown College which recently resulted in raising $1 million for Crown College. Watch More...
Cycling for Change: Crown College event with Colombian activist Jaime Ortiz Mariño and leaders from the UC Santa Cruz bike community
On October 11, Crown College at UC Santa Cruz hosted an event that brought together a visionary in urban planning, Jaime Ortiz Mariño, and two leaders from UCSC's biking community to talk about the intersection of cycling, community, and activism. Read More... Watch More Here...
AI: Trust & Responsibility
On September 27 Linda Glenn, esteemed Crown lecturer and founder of UCSC's Center for Applied Values and Ethics in Advanced Technologies, participated in AXIO's prestigious Expert Voices roundtable discussion. The discussion centered around AI and how questions around regulation, trust and legality will impact the technology's growth moving forward. Read More...
Artificial Intelligence
Founding Director of the Center for Applied Values and Ethics at Crown College, UC Santa Cruz, Linda MacDonald Glenn, will give a welcome introduction at the panel discussion, and Edward King, a nationally syndicated radio host, will moderate the panel of distinguished guests. Read More...
Preserving Earth’s future: Frontier Fellows program funds undergraduate research
Nguyen, Coyle, and Bond have ushered in a new wave of innovative and interdisciplinary research focused on preserving Earth’s future. Read More...
Blazing a Slug trail to the Olympics
Rhythmic gymnast Izzy Connor will be the first UC Santa Cruz student to compete in the Olympics—the result of years of both personal struggle and success. Read More...
Do everything with love
Harmon’s recent bequest to UC Santa Cruz’s KZSC radio station illustrates a passion for contributing to causes that are important to her. Read More...
Alumnus David Young is transforming the field of AI-driven digital artwork
Young’s curiosity for using computers as tools for creative design eventually inspired him to become an independent artist, where he now employs AI tools to create digital artwork. Read More...
Alumnus leads massive effort to ramp up COVID-19 testing
Joe DeRisi, award-winning 'disease tracker,' converted unused lab space into one of America’s most prolific COVID-19 testing centers in eight days. Read More...
Sandra Nair
The 21-year-old from Kerala, India, is graduating with a double major in physics and mathematics, she speaks four languages, she has won numerous awards, and—oh, yes, she’s a published author of science-fiction novels. Read More...
Fiction forward
Students, alumni, and community members are participating in a “Deep Read” on the bleak dystopian futures of Margaret Atwood in advance of the Booker Prize–winning author’s on-stage discussion during Alumni Weekend. Read More...
'First-gen' student pays it forward
Undergraduate honored with President’s Award for Outstanding Student Leadership. Read More...
