Alumni
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Reyna Grande: Documenting the immigrant experience
Award-winning novelist and memoirist Reyna Grande attended UC Santa Cruz after her junior college English teacher urged her to leave the urban confines of Los Angeles and try living somewhere different.
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Sage Weil: Opening doors for open source
As the founder of web hosting company DreamHost, Sage Weil was already a successful entrepreneur when he came to UC Santa Cruz in 2004 to study data storage systems.
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Susan Wojcicki: The most powerful woman on the internet
Susan Wojcicki is CEO of YouTube, the ubiquitous video-sharing website that in 2017 was ranked as the second most popular site in the world—only behind its parent company Google.
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Axel Alonso: Diversity’s superhero
Axel Alonso was editor-in-chief at Marvel Comics from 2011–2017, where he built a legacy by making comic book characters and their creators reflect the diversity of our world.
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John Laird: A trailblazing public servant
John Laird has watched his political capital rise over the years. In 1983, while serving on the Santa Cruz City Council, he became one of the first openly gay mayors in the United States.
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Julie Packard: Safeguarding the sea
Julie Packard helped found the Monterey Bay Aquarium and has served as the aquarium’s executive director since it opened in 1984.
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Kent Nagano: The maestro
Kent Nagano is an internationally acclaimed opera and symphony conductor who is renowned for interpretations of clarity, elegance, and intelligence.
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Kathy Sullivan: From the sea to the stars
A scientist, astronaut, and award-winning educator, Kathy Sullivan was the first American woman to walk in space and is the former administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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MCD Biology launches undergraduate biomedical research initiative
Biology professor Jeremy Sanford is taking a bold new approach to the undergraduate biology lab experience.
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Fishing physician
Alumnus Greg Olsen not only leads a successful medical practice, but also a booming commercial fishing business
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Talk with the architect: Cowell Ranch Hay Barn
On Wednesday evening, November 8, architect, UC Santa Cruz alumnus and Professor Emeritus of architecture Richard Fernau will speak about his office’s renovation/reinvention of the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn.
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UC Santa Cruz ranks in top 50 of global research universities, 5th for space sciences
UC Santa Cruz ranks fifth in the world for space sciences and is one of six University of California campuses ranked among the top 50 research universities overall, according to a study by U.S. News and World Report.