| | The invisible workforce of Silicon Valley | When you hear about free gourmet lunches at big tech companies, the cafeteria worker might not come to mind. Or the shuttle bus drivers, janitors, and landscapers who serve the region’s tech elite. | | | The storyteller and the detective | Best-selling author Laurie R. King (Kresge ’77, religious studies) reflects on the craft of storytelling and on her legendary fictional character, Mary Russell. | | | Alumni Regional Events | Washington, D.C. – Wednesday, April 27 | All-UC Alumni Spring Mixer at Public Bar | Boston – Tuesday, May 10 | BSLUGs go to Fenway at Fenway Park | London – Sunday, July 10 | British 10K at Central - London SW1A | East Bay – Sunday, July 17 | Banana Slugs at the Oakland A's at O.co Coliseum | » More Regional Events | | | &maybetheywontkillyou | An alumnus’s game aims to build empathy by allowing players to take the role of a poor black American, encountering aggressions from humiliating to lethal. | | | Building a ladder to a cure | A cancer diagnosis used to be a death sentence for children. Now UC Santa Cruz researchers are opening a new front in the battle against the disease. | | The Campaign for UC Santa Cruz | Open source advocate | Scott Brandt, vice chancellor for research and professor of computer science, has been appointed as the inaugural holder of the Sage Weil Presidential Chair for Open Source Software. | | | Another musical score | The acclaimed San Francisco–based nonprofit organization Other Minds, which is dedicated to the promotion of new and experimental music, has donated its archives to UC Santa Cruz. | | |
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