2015
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An Alumni Weekend to remember
Alumni Weekend in April celebrated and honored UC Santa Cruz’s 50th anniversary in fittingly grand style.
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Alumni Profile / 1970: Paul Sparrow: Championing the First Amendment
As a successful TV producer, Paul Sparrow helped catch murderers and child abductors. He guided a 100-person production team across the wilds of Morocco to document one of the world’s toughest adventure races. He directed more than a dozen documentaries and 300 hours of primetime TV, and won two Emmys. But ask the 61-year-old Sparrow…
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Alumni Profile / 1991: Melissa Nelson: Revitalizing native cultures
Melissa Nelson believes the best ways to teach Native American youth about their cultural past is through their hearts and minds, as well as their stomachs.
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About the cover
Catherine Ramírez, associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies and director of the campus’s Chicano Latino Research Center, is among the hundreds of UC Santa Cruz faculty whose bold ideas push boundaries and challenge assumptions.
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The Campaign for UC Santa Cruz: Campaign update
As our campus celebrates 50 years of original thinking and questioning authority, the Campaign for UC Santa Cruz is building resources for its future.
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Fall ’15 Review credits
UC Santa Cruz Review Fall 2015 University of California Santa Cruz Chancellor George Blumenthal Vice Chancellor, University Relations Keith E. Brant Assistant Vice Chancellor, Communications and Marketing Sherry L.K. Main UC Santa Cruz Review Fall 2015 Editor Gwen Jourdonnais Creative Director Lisa Nielsen Art Director/Designer Linda Knudson (Cowell ’76) Associate Editor Dan White Proofreader Jeanne…
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Memories
The spring ’15 UC Santa Cruz Review magazine—the first of two commemorative issues this year celebrating UC Santa Cruz’s 50th anniversary—opened the memory floodgates for alumni and friends, some of whom wrote in with detailed descriptions of how the campus enriched and changed their lives.
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Editor’s note: The kids are alright
Alumni descended upon UC Santa Cruz in unprecedented numbers for UC Santa Cruz’s 50th anniversary Alumni Weekend in April. You asked questions in the classrooms, fired up your minds during lectures, and lingered over fine wines and plates of good food. And you brought your kids.
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Celebrate 50 years young
UC Santa Cruz started in 1965 as an unconventional place that pushed against the stodginess of educational institutions, a place where innovation—no matter how messy—was part of the campus’s DNA. Our celebrations of the campus’s 50th anniversary—a year of festivities, reunions, talks, and collaborations—have been sensational successes.
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Astronomer Claire Max appointed director of UC Observatories
UC President Janet Napolitano has appointed UC Santa Cruz astronomer Claire Max as director of UC Observatories.
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Farm to label: How alumnus helped bring organic labeling policy to the nation
Mark Lipson, now a research associate at Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, was instrumental in standardizing organic farming in the U.S. Now back at UCSC, he continues the mission of institutionalizing public policy support for organic farming.
