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UC Santa Cruz welcomed more than 9,000 residential students to the campus community during this year's move-in. Our podcast captures parents' hopes and dreams for their children, new students' excitement and anticipation, and the emotion of the moment.

Communications staffers Gwen Jourdonnais and Dan White go over recent highlights in UC Santa Cruz news.

What's new in Dickens studies? Take a journey to the 2018 Dickens Universe to find out! Communications staffers Gwen Jourdonnais, Dan White, and J.D. Hillard spent an afternoon chatting with the director of the Dickens Project, going to an afternoon tea, attending Dickensian seminars, and learning Victorian dance—all part of a weeklong annual celebration of the beloved British author Charles Dickens (1812–1870), whose writing remains remarkably relevant today.

Communications staffers Gwen Jourdonnais and Dan White take their show on the road and hit up McHenry Library to podcast from there and talk to library staff about the audio and visual resources available to faculty, staff, and students. Then they go over recent highlights in UC Santa Cruz news.

Communications staffers Gwen Jourdonnais and Dan White go over recent highlights in UC Santa Cruz news.

Communications staffers Gwen Jourdonnais and Dan White go over recent highlights in UC Santa Cruz news.

Communications staffers Gwen Jourdonnais and Dan White go over some recent highlights in UC Santa Cruz news.

Communications staff members Gwen Jourdonnais and Dan White go over some recent highlights in UC Santa Cruz news.

Alumni who gathered on campus for Alumni Weekend 2018 talk to us about how it feels to come back and what UC Santa Cruz has meant in their lives.

Communications staff members Gwen Jourdonnais and Dan White go over some recent highlights in UC Santa Cruz news, including an Alumni Weekend sneak peek.

Communications staff members Gwen Jourdonnais and JD Hillard go over some recent highlights in UC Santa Cruz news.

Communications staff members Gwen Jourdonnais and Dan White go over some recent highlights in UC Santa Cruz news.

Communications staff members Gwen Jourdonnais and Dan White go over some recent highlights in UC Santa Cruz news.

Speaking of Home, a public art installation by UC Santa Cruz alumna Nancy Ann Coyne (Kresge '93, anthropology), displays photographs of immigrants in St. Paul's skyways. The materials are transparent, so viewers using the pedestrian bridges and outside at ground level see each other through the images. Learn more: http://www.speakingofhome.org/

Communications staff members Gwen Jourdonnais and Dan White go over some recent highlights in UC Santa Cruz news.

When Rich Vicenti and Alesa Lightbourne were students at Cowell College in the 1970s, he courted, but she was not available. Then they graduated and took separate paths. They were both single nearly four decades after their last dance at UC Santa Cruz. She was in Iraq, learning firsthand about the struggles of Kurdish women when they reconnected on Facebook. Over the internet, they finally began the romance that was not possible in their youth.

UC Santa Cruz Weekly News Roundup Feb 2 2018 by UC Santa Cruz

In its second year as a fully student-driven event, CruzHacks 2018 provided an environment that encouraged collaboration and networking.

Communications staff members Gwen Jourdonnais and Dan White go over some of the past week's highlights in UC Santa Cruz news.

In its 50th season, UC Santa Cruz's men's rugby team aims for the conference win.