Student Profile
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Understanding the influences of technology and economic development on genocide risk
Recent graduate John Bentley won the Chancellor’s award for his research on the risks of social media expansion in developing countries.
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Balancing goals: Student athlete Camille Anneet excels in politics, legal studies, and soccer
Camille Anneet (Stevenson ’26, politics and legal studies), a second-year soccer player double majoring in politics and legal studies, has played soccer since she was six years old. As a student athlete, she balances it all.
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Fashion, community, and academics: First-gen student Izzy Zazueta’s path to graduation
Izzy Zazueta (John R. Lewis ’24, politics), a third year, dean’s honors, and first-generation student, will graduate from UCSC with extensive research experience, involvement with nearly a dozen organizations, and will be attending the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Sociology Ph.D. program.
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Challenging the costs
While at UCSC, Marisol Ornelas (Stevenson ‘24, politics and legal studies) is working to remedy the many obstacles on the road to higher education.
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Transforming Futures: Amanda Safi
Transforming Futures— a pilot program launched by UC Santa Cruz’s Institute for Social Transformation—awarded seven first generation, underrepresented, and/or low-income UCSC students scholarships to pursue unpaid internships over the summer. Amanda Safi interned with the Office of Congressman Jimmy Panetta.
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Two from UC Santa Cruz awarded Fulbright grants
Two PhD candidates at UC Santa Cruz have been offered prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants for the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Politics doctoral candidate wins Newcombe Fellowship for research on women’s testimony against sexual violence
Natali Levin-Schwartz is one of 22 winners of a national fellowship award for scholars working on ethical or religious issues. Her dissertation research focuses on how women resist and organize against sexual violence and the role that testimony plays in that process.
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Blum Scholars present preliminary results of community-based research
Four graduate students discussed their research on jail health care, Latina resistance, Central Valley youth, and feminism in the farmlands.
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Politics PhD candidate named a Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar
Michael Wilson Becerril, a doctoral candidate in politics, has been named a 2017-18 Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar.
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Politics student named ‘Women in Green Forum Youth Trailblazer’
Maxine Jimenez (Kresge ’19, politics and community studies) is the 2016 recipient of the Women in Green Forum Youth Trailblazer Award.
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Americans willing to sacrifice to reduce gap between rich and poor, doctoral candidate finds
Contrary to the stereotype of Americans as self-interested individualists, the majority care more about growing economic inequality than we’ve been led to expect, and many would sacrifice personal gain for the well-being of others, according to research b