 | Gaming with the gods
| | Alums from the Games and Playable Media master’s program have turned their school project—a video game based on Mesoamerican myths—into a viable commercial product on one of the internet’s largest online game platforms. | |  | | Scholarly Slug surge | | Graduate interest in UC Santa Cruz has hit a new high with more than 4,700 students applying to earn an advanced degree in the coming academic year. | |  | Endangered data
| Sociologist Lindsey Dillon is one of the data champions monitoring federal websites to preserve scientific data and track changes made by the Trump administration.
| |  | Look homeward, Slugs!
| | Alumni Weekend 2017—April 28–30—promises learning, adventure, reconnection, and revelry. | |  | | A scholar and a leader | | UC Santa Cruz alum named executive director of largest international society of Jewish Studies. | | | | | ALUMNI REGIONAL EVENTS | | Boston – Thursday, May 4 | | Banana Slugs at the Red Sox at Fenway Park | | Santa Cruz – Saturday, May 20 | Alumni and Student Volunteer Service Day at Natural Bridges
| San Francisco – Saturday, May 20
| Unearthing Disaster I & II at Minnesota Street Project
| | London – Sunday, July 9 | | Join Team UC at The British 10K | | » More Regional Events | |  | Strawberry fields for better
| Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems has revolutionized the cultivation of one of California’s most valuable crops—strawberries.
| |  | | Flash point | | A gift of a major photography collection provides rare opportunities to engage with poignant, powerful images. | | | The Campaign for UC Santa Cruz | |
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