Alumni
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UCSC Night at SAP Open sported stars, supported tennis
UCSC Night at the SAP Open Tennis Tournament on February 10 drew 275 alumni and friends to the HP Pavilion.
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Anna Deavere Smith: Reignited imagination key to closing racial divide
To address the problems that arise over ongoing racial divides–gang violence, poverty, inequality–we need to look back to the lessons of Martin Luther King Jr. and reignite our collective imagination about what it’s like to be the “other person.”
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Explore China through ‘Legends of China’ trip
Come Explore China. UCSC is cosponsoring a “Legends of China” experience this July. The deadline for signing up for the 7-plus day trip – for UCSC students, faculty, and staff – has been extended to May 1. Please see informational flyer.
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UC Santa Cruz joins ranks of top large universities for Peace Corps
UC Santa Cruz ranks No. 21 on the annual list of “Peace Corps Top Colleges and Universities,” even after moving from the mid-size to the large university category because of increased enrollment.
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UCSC Scholarship Benefit Dinner raises more than $160,000 to support students
More than 300 people turned out for the seventh annual UC Santa Cruz Scholarship Benefit Dinner that took place Saturday night at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose.
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Haiti News & Information: Resources, including ways you can help
UC Santa Cruz has prepared a special web site in an effort to keep members of the campus community informed about the crisis in Haiti. This site includes information on just a few of the relief organizations working in the country that can benefit from yo
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UC Santa Cruz lecturer named first Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County
UC Santa Cruz humanities lecturer Gary Young has been named the first-ever Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County.
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7th annual Scholarship Benefit Dinner to support UCSC students–Feb. 6 at Tech Museum in San Jose
UCSC will host its seventh annual Scholarship Benefit Dinner on Saturday, February 6, at the Tech Museum in San Jose.
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Award-winning women writers to be featured in UCSC’s 2010 Living Writers Series
How do women writers view history differently than men? That’s the key question posed by “Another Look: Women Writers Re-Vision History”–the winter installment of UCSC’s annual Living Writers Series.
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Proposed constitutional amendment would guarantee funds for UC
Vowing to protect higher education funding, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today revealed a bold proposal to amend the state constitution to shift money from prisons to higher education.
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Literature professor’s book makes Choice magazine’s list of Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009
Literature professor Rob Wilson’s book “Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics” (Harvard University Press) has been selected as one of Choice magazine’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009.
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Shakespeare Santa Cruz announces 2010 season lineup
The 2010 Shakespeare Santa Cruz season will feature a slate of three plays that explore the theme of “love” in all of its ramifications–from first blush, to wrenching jealousy, to familial dysfunction of the highest order.