In this issue are stories on the future of cities; five new ways the arts are flourishing at UC Davis; efforts by the College to build a more diverse and equitable community; a student who founded a nonprofit to help underprivileged kids; an alumnus honored with the university's highest honor for his contributions to the arts and humanities; a multidisciplinary project that explores Asian American food heritage and farming footprint in California; an alumna who is helping close the digital divide in rural communities in the Sacramento Valley; and how the physics department is recovering helium, a nonrenewable resource vital to many experiments.