Author: Dan White
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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.
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Reef madness: A coral grows at UC Santa Cruz
Hundreds of students and community members are contributing their handiwork to the Crochet Coral Reef, a massive participatory art project that combines higher geometry with handicraft while calling attention to the disappearing wonders of the marine world.
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Giving Day 2017 raises more than $520,000 for a wealth of worthy projects
The spirit of friendly competition added excitement to this 24-hour online giving fest, which raised money for a wide array of good causes.
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Civil rights leader, former NAACP president inspires crowd at MLK Convocation
Benjamin Jealous had a strong message of hope, inclusion and resistance during his keynote address at the convocation at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium.
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Planting seeds, growing confidence
Innovative nonprofit founder, sustainable farmer and youth advocate Doron Comerchero is this year’s Tony Hill Award winner
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Civil rights leader who revitalized NAACP to headline MLK Convocation
Benjamin Jealous will address the crowd at the 33rd annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation in downtown Santa Cruz on Thursday, February 9.
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Stepping up the fight against childhood diseases
The newly endowed Colligan Presidential Chair in Pediatric Genomics will help UC Santa Cruz advance its efforts to fight pediatric diseases.
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A year of risks and rewards at UC Santa Cruz
From a dramatic Quarry renovation groundbreaking to an extraordinary recognition for groundbreaking research, 2016 at UC Santa Cruz was full to bursting with accomplishments and accolades
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Playing it forward
More than 30 years ago, Miriam Ellis helped out Marieke Rothschild when she was feeling lost at UC Santa Cruz. Now, Rothschild has made an endowment gift to Ellis’s popular theater program.