Photo: Self portrait of Ansel Adams at UC Berkeley, September 1966. Latimer Hall in front of the west facade of Lewis Hall. Photo by Ansel Adams. Sweeney/Rubin Ansel Adams Fiat Lux Collection, California Museum of Photography at the University of California, Riverside.

This year’s On the Same Page program is pretty awesome:

Fiat Lux (“let there be light”) is not only the motto of the University of California. It is also the name of a vast repository of photographs taken of the entire UC system nearly fifty years ago by Ansel Adams, one of the most famous photographers of the 20th Century. This extraordinary time capsule from the UC’s past has been chosen as the centerpiece for the 2012 On the Same Page program. Through our website (and the network of classes, talks, exhibitions, and databases that it weaves together), we invite you to explore the Fiat Lux collection, to look imaginatively and critically at our university’s history, and to participate actively in making its future. We are all stewards of the University of California…