Acknowledgements

Within a few months of the previous edition's publication, the 2024 Pacific Magazine began taking shape. By the end of May, a story budget was set and writers and photographers began working on their assignments. The first stories for the print edition were submitted in June and July. Building on this work, the Pacific Magazine Interactive team began prototyping the two digital features: one illustrating University of the Pacific's century in Stockton, and a second delving into astronomy faculty members' research and work with students.

Searching through imagery from the James Webb Space Telescope; paging through archival boxes of old photos in university's Holt-Atherton Special Collections and Archives; shooting video of a physics student and his astronomer professor and mentor; drafting, iterating on and perfecting designs; and developing, testing and refining features with technical wizardry, the team worked steadily to produce two groundbreaking digital experiences.

The features in Pacific Magazine Interactive were built using Next.js, an open-source React framework for generating static websites. Page designs were prototyped and refined using Figma. Some AI tools such as Adobe Firefly and ChatGPT were used to assist in production.

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Image Credits

Space to Explore

All images not credited here are property of University of the Pacific. 

Illustration credit: Image generated using Adobe Firefly. 

Illustration credit: NASA, CXC, M. Weiss

Illustration credit: Image generated using Adobe Firefly. 

Photo credit: NASA, ESA, CSA and STScI

Photo credit: NASA/Desiree Stover

Photo credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Adamo (Stockholm University) and the FEAST JWST team

Photo credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team

Photo credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Janice Lee (STScI), Thomas Williams (Oxford), and the PHANGS team

Photo credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI

 
Photo credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Bradley (STScI), A. Adamo (Stockholm University) and the Cosmic Spring collaboration 

Photo credit: Kadri Nizam

Photo credit: NASA/Matthew Dominick

Bold from the Start

All images in this feature are property of University of the Pacific. The majority were digitized and made available by the Holt-Atherton Special Collections and Archives. 

Copyright

© 2024 University of the Pacific, all rights reserved. University of the Pacific’s Office of Strategic Communications developed the underlying source code that supports the zoom-in and zoom-out timeline features along with the ability to personalize the timeline and upload it to social media. Pacific’s Office of Strategic Communications licenses the timeline source code for reasonable fees. Please contact communications@pacific.edu for inquiries.