 | | Silicon Valley Campus hosts grand opening | | The Sept. 28 celebration, showcasing UC Santa Cruz's new multidisciplinary teaching and research hub, will feature an open house, ribbon cutting, and engaging talks by leading campus thinkers. | | | | |  | | Dropping in to the White House | | Pulitzer Prize-winning surfing memoir by William Finnegan (Cowell '74, English literature) topped President Obama’s reading list. | | 
| | Featured Event | Founders Celebration, October 22, UC Santa Cruz Science & Engineering Library, with a keynote by alumna Julie Snyder of This American Life and co-creator of the hit podcast Serial
| | » More Exciting Events | | | ALUMNI REGIONAL EVENTS | Chicago – Wednesday, September 28
| Chicago Happy Hour at Chicagoan Lobby Bar
| London – Thursday, September 29
| Slugs and Tritons Welcome to London at Grand Union Farringdon
| | » More Regional Events | | | The Campaign for UC Santa Cruz |  | | Beyond the academy | UC Santa Cruz received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to help broaden the career preparation of Ph.D. students.
| |  | | Grant go-getters | | Faculty in the Social Sciences Division secured more than $7.6 million in research grants during the 2015–16 academic year, up from $7.4 million the year before. | | |
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