Author: Peggy Townsend
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UCSC cycling standouts: See how they ride
UC Santa Cruz is both bike-conscientious and eco-friendly—despite a killer climb from town to class. It’s no coincidence, then, that the university boasts strong participation in annual Bike to Work Week festivities and that a number of Slugs have gone on to make careers out of their biking obsessions.
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UCSC Nabs Gold and Platinum awards for United Way and Second Harvest workplace campaigns
Despite uncertain economic times, UC Santa Cruz once again made it into the Top-5 list of workplace contributors to the United Way of Santa Cruz County and also earned a Platinum Can Award from Second Harvest Food Bank for its donations.
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Alumni in Profile / Brenda Wong Aoki — Bringing stories to life
Merrill College graduate Brenda Wong Aoki, a three times National Endowment for the Arts fellow, brings stories to life.
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Alumni in Profile / Stephen Abreu — At the intersection of business and science
Stephen Abreu earned a bachelors in biochemestry and a masters in molecular biology from Kresge College. Today he helps science move from the lab into doctors’ hands.
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Alumni in Profile / Gregg Herken — Unraveling history’s mysteries
Gregg Herken, a member of UCSC’s pioneer class, brought some of the Cold War’s secret weapons into public view.
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Parents are nervous, proud, sad, elated all at once at summer orientation
Part balm for nervous souls, part information service, part the first step in letting go, the annual freshman orientation drew 3,000 proud and anxious parents to campus this summer.
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Richard Harris: One cool reporter
1980 Crown College graduate was drawn to journalism while taking a science writing course from John Wilkes.
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A path of service: Joshua Karrasch helps a rapidly expanding student population–vets
Joshua Karrasch, a former Navy corpsman who spent a tour of duty treating patients in sweltering field hospitals in Kuwait, helped STARS develop a peer-mentor program for veterans.
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Real-life heroes: Deutron Kebebew found mentors, then became one
Although Deutron Kebebew’s life turned out to be something like a movie, it was not the one he had imagined.
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43 Things you might not know about UC Santa Cruz
In honor of the campus’s 43rd year, here are 43 things we bet you didn’t know about UC Santa Cruz. We think many of them will surprise and delight you–and maybe even inspire you to send us a few of your own.
