Author: J.D. Hillard
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In memoriam: Irene Osterbrock
Widow of late Lick Observatory director was tireless UC Santa Cruz advocate, volunteer, supporter of graduate students, and arts patron
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Seed-funding innovation
The UC Santa Cruz Foundation Board of Trustees seeks interesting new projects to fund.
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Staff member receives inaugural Silver Slug award
A new scholarship from the UC Santa Cruz Retirees Association aims to make a university degree more affordable for UC Santa Cruz staff and their dependents.
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Entrepreneur and UC Santa Cruz benefactor Will Webster dies at 90
Webster, a major donor who invented revolutionary cardiac devices, established a foundation that spearheaded significant campus changes.
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An advocate for instructors and staff
Outstanding Staff Award winner Judy Scarborough ensures quality teaching at UC Santa Cruz by keeping human resources seamless.
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Help from the wizarding world
A gift from a Harry Potter–themed virtual running club enables a UC Santa Cruz professor to observe whales in Antarctica
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UC’s secret energy source: retirees
For University of California staff and faculty, retirement does not mean retreat
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The Cowell College Love Bank
When Rich Vicenti and Alesa Lightbourne were students at Cowell College in the 1970s, he courted her, but she was not available. They took separate paths after graduation. Nearly four decades later, finding themselves both single they finally began the romance that was not possible in their youth.
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Field trip of a lifetime
When he transferred to UC Santa Cruz, Ray Gutierrez didn’t foresee he’d soon be in India making a documentary about youths with disabilities at a crossroads between globalization and tradition.
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Fishing physician
Alumnus Greg Olsen not only leads a successful medical practice, but also a booming commercial fishing business