Author: Dan White
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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.
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Telling our stories, understanding each other
Dear World, an award-winning, international storytelling project, comes to the UC Santa Cruz campus starting on Thursday, April 13 and continuing through Friday, April 14.
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Alumni to run for fun—and a good cause
UC Santa Cruz’s famous forests and meadows will be the venue for this beautiful and challenging 5K stomp across the campus in support of student scholarships on April 29.
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Alumni Weekend Teach-Ins 2017: stem cell research and standing up to “alternative facts”
This year’s Teach-In lecture series will include eye-opening presentations about the potentials of stem cell research and the role of the humanities in a ‘post-truth world.’
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Alumni Weekend keynote to feature co-chair of Women’s March on Washington
Alumna Carmen Perez, longtime community organizer, activist, and a national co-chair of one of the largest demonstrations in history, will speak on the role and importance of protest with a purpose.