Author: Dan White
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Art and natural history to converge at “Artstravaganza!” open house at the Kenneth S. Norris Center
Students and members of the Santa Cruz community will have a chance to learn about illustrating nature and browse through the center’s growing collection at the open house on November 4-5.
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Founders Celebration 2017: recognizing extraordinary achievement and generosity
J. Herman Blake, Linda Peterson and Carl Walsh will receive UC Santa Cruz’s highest honors at Founders Celebration Dinner at Porter Dining Hall
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Fostering understanding
An exhibition at the Museum of Art and History in downtown Santa Cruz is a vivid collaboration between artists and current and former foster youth, with stories of hardship, hope and identity.
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Move-in 2017: Jittery nerves and words of wisdom
Move-in week at UC Santa Cruz was a time for parental advice, long goodbyes, meeting roommates, exploring the wooded campus and making “fast friends.”
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Chasing the eclipse
Douglas Duncan, director of the Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado, and a distinguished UC Santa Cruz astronomy grad, is leading an eclipse-watching trip to Wyoming.
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New graduates get their day in the sun at UC Santa Cruz
Spirits and graduation hats were soaring during this year’s commencement festivities on campus, drawing thousands of students and well-wishers in ceremonies throughout the weekend.
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Outstanding Staff Award: Lived experience brings need for humanities into sharp focus
Irena Polić, this year’s Outstanding Staff Award honoree, is a passionate advocate for the humanities. “They are our life,” she said. “The humanities show us who we are and where we come from.”
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United we stand: Staff and faculty have long invested in the community through giving to the United Way
UC Santa Cruz’s long tradition of supporting United Way continues with a spring campaign that is aimed to increase giving throughout the community.
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Alumni Weekend 2017: Glorious weather, vibrant events bring Slugs home
Revelers took a Fun Run, got a crash course in activism, rekindled old friendships, let their hair down, and paid tribute to Sammy the Slug at UC Santa Cruz Alumni Weekend 2017.
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Inspiring young students to branch into STEM
This spring, an enterprising group of Watsonville High School students put on lab coats and safety goggles and got a behind-the-scenes look at the labs of UC Santa Cruz’s Science Hill.
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Alumni Weekend 2017 promises learning, adventure, reconnection, and revelry
Returning Banana Slugs are in for three solid days of learning, adventure, and mind-expanding fun when they return for UC Santa Cruz’s annual Alumni Weekend festivities from April 28 through 30.
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A role model for girls who code
Regine De Guzman, a self-taught coding whiz, wants to close the Silicon Valley gender gap by encouraging girls to pursue tech careers. She will share her words of wisdom at the upcoming TEDxLosGatosHighSchool.