| Athletics wins the race
| UC Santa Cruz students showed strong support for the campus’s NCAA Division III athletics program, with 63 percent of voting undergraduates signaling that they would be willing to establish a new fee.
| |  | | Peering into the dark history of slavery | | With the help of a $220,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, history professor Greg O'Malley is creating a new public database about the slave trade. | |  | | A day in the sun for UC Santa Cruz grads | Congratulations to all of our grads! This year's commencement ceremonies were a time of celebration and reflection for newly hatched Banana Slug alumni heading out into the world.
| | | Alumni—get an Event in a Box! | Event in a Box is a fun way for out-of-state alumni to host UC Santa Cruz events and reconnect with other alumni in your area. We'll send you name tags, buttons, informational postcards, and the like to use at the event, and also send invitations for you. Contact Rebecca Lizarraga (College Ten '15), regional events coordinator, for information: rlizarra@ucsc.edu.
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| Slugs on tap
| Want to grab a frosty pint and support an alum at the same time? Check our map of alumni breweries. Cheers!
| | | Chris Brown: Street wise and book smart | When the bullet missed Chris Brown's head by millimeters, it set him on a course toward teaching criminal justice and working to end gang violence on the streets of Los Angeles.
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| Fifty ways to be amazing!
| | Our 50th anniversary publication, Fifty Things We’ve Learned Along the Way, won an International Grand Gold Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), a professional association serving educational institutions. CASE received more than 3,350 entries for consideration in nearly 100 categories by 713 institutions around the world. Judges gave 322 awards: 103 bronze, 119 silver, 83 gold, and just 17 grand gold, putting UC Santa Cruz in rare company. Check out this award-winning publication and feel the Slug pride! | | | The Campaign for UC Santa Cruz | | |  | | Zimmerman scholarship winner is immersed in public service | | Graduating senior Katie Sweeney (Cowell ’16, community studies), winner of the fifth annual Gabriel Zimmerman Memorial Scholarship, started a campus chapter of Camp Kesem and volunteered at Barrios Unidos, among other public service endeavors. | | |
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