Author: Dan White
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Slow Food Nation: Conversation with Alice Waters
Pioneering restaurateur Alice Waters discusses everything from affordable high-quality food to the essential role of young people in America’s “Delicious Revolution”
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Engineering opportunity
Tackling problems with sheer ingenuity, creativity, and teamwork is part of the fun at the weeklong Girls In Engineering program at UC Santa Cruz.
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A summary of summery things to do at UC Santa Cruz
Exotic plants, quiet library halls, Grateful Dead memorabilia, friendly sharks, and a gigantic set of whalebones greet visitors to UC Santa Cruz in the off-season when most students are away for the summer.
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Original vision
Reflections on the tumultuous ’60s, the heady days of UC Santa Cruz’s beginnings, and the ways the campus has stayed true to its mission through the decades
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Freshly minted grads revel at commencement
Bubbles floated in the air and fresh-flower leis ruffled in the breeze as scholars and their supporters gathered over the weekend for a very special edition of UC Santa Cruz commencement.
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Steck Award honoree delves into the trauma of civil war
The response has been overwhelmingly positive for Dominic Romano’s project, which examines physical and historical trauma.
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A sense of community: Wendy Baxter recognized with Outstanding Staff Award
Outstanding Staff Award honoree Wendy Baxter’s colleagues and students praise her unique ability to create a feeling of home and acceptance for undergraduates and work collaboratively.
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International Playhouse returns for its 15th season
UC Santa Cruz’s International Playhouse, an annual program of short theater pieces staged in different languages by students in the university’s Language Program, is back for another round of staged pieces.
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An Alumni Weekend to remember
A record-breaking crowd of 2,500 revelers, more than half of them alumni, took part in UC Santa Cruz’s Alumni Weekend this year—a special edition of the event that was bigger and more elaborate than ever before in honor of the campus’s 50th anniversary.
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Classes without quizzes: Alumni Weekend Teach-Ins
Returning UC Santa Cruz alumni should get ready to exercise their brains, but with no fear of final exams, at the ever-popular “Teach-Ins” featuring professors Bettina Aptheker and Craig Haney.
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Slugs celebrate National Volunteer Week
With National Volunteer Week April 12–18, Banana Slugs have been celebrating and sustaining the core UC Santa Cruz values of public service, social justice, and civic engagement with a series of UC Santa Cruz Alumni Volunteer Service Days across the state. Volunteers have come together to do various service projects with an emphasis on fun,…
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SAB Spring Chancellor Forum – Thursday, April 9, 2015
All UC Santa Cruz staff are invited to the Staff Advisory Board-sponsored Spring Staff Forum with Chancellor Blumenthal, Thursday, April 9, from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Stevenson Event Center.