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The UCSC Science Communication Alumni Association plans to officially launch in Winter 2025. Stay tuned for updates. 

UCSC Science Communication Alumni Association

Sharing Science With the World


Since completing the program, our graduates have gone on to work at publications like The New York Times, Quanta, Science News, Popular Mechanics, and more.  They’re guiding institutions like NASA, Stanford Medicine, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. We have among our ranks magazine editors, park rangers, museum exhibit designers, public radio hosts, filmmakers, lawyers, and dive instructors. With a degree from UCSC’s Science Communication Program, the possibilities are endless.

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Starting in February 2025, members of the UCSC Science Communication Alumni Association will be able to access to our alumni directory. You’ll be able to update your contact information, stay in touch with fellow slugs, and make new connections.

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Revolutionizing Science Journalism

Graduates of the UCSC Science Communication Program have landed roles at or freelanced for a number of newspapers, magazines, and online media organizations. 

Scientific American

 National Geographic

Quanta Popular Mechanics
Live Science and Space.com The Transmitter
The New York Times STAT
The Washington Post Science
KQED Public Radio Arizona Luminaria
Chemical & Engineering News KAZU Public Radio
 Nature Science News
 The San Francisco Chronicle Wisconsin Public Radio

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Groundbreaking Institutional Communications

For decades, UCSC Science Communication Program grads have forged developed new and inventive ways of communicating science at some of the world's premier institutions, research agencies, and universities.

 Stanford University Princeton University
The University of Colorado, Boulder The Smithsonian Institution
The California Academy of Sciences Scripps Institute of Oceanography
 The Simons Foundation The U.S. Geological Survey
 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Joint Genome Institute
 NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Author's Corner

Our Alumni have penned books on everything from parenting to mathematics to sea slugs. 



Anil Ananthaswamy ’00

Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI

(Dutton Press, 2024)


Betsy Mason and Greg Miller ’01

All Over The Map: A Cartographic Odyssey

(National Geographic Press, 2018)


Richard Stone ’91

Mammoth: The Resurrection of An Ice Age Giant

(Perseus Publishing, 2001)

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Dana Mackenzie ’97

The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

with Judea Pearl

(Basic Books, 2020)


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