Donor News
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Rising to the challenge
Leaving behind an early life of poverty, student Layla Cervantes is defying the statistics and becoming ‘a great scientist.’
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Ecologist Kristy Kroeker wins prestigious Packard Fellowship
The Packard Fellowship supports Kroeker’s research on environmental change in dynamic environments and complex ecosystems.
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Center for Creative Ecologies at UC Santa Cruz to present talks on global climate justice
The new Center for Creative Ecologies at UC Santa Cruz offers a place to consider the intersection of visual culture, politics, and the environment…
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Life, realized
Alumni authors give voice to transformative experiences at UC Santa Cruz that changed their lives and shaped their careers.
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Bugs in an urban jungle: What green spaces mean for ecology and community
Since 2013, UC Santa Cruz environmental studies professor Stacy Philpott has studied insect biodiversity in urban gardens to better understand the ecological role these green spaces provide.
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Environmental studies lecturer wins anthropology association public policy award
Barbara Rose Johnston, a UC Santa Cruz lecturer in environmental studies, has been named a winner of the 2015 Anthropology in Public Policy Award from the American Anthropological Association.
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‘U.S. News’ visits UC Santa Cruz on a ‘College Road Trip’ in ‘Best Colleges 2016’
UC Santa Cruz is featured in the “College Road Trip” section of U.S. News World Report’s “Best Colleges 2016” guidebook, which hits newsstands this week.
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Picture this: An app for blind photographers
Grad student Dustin Adams, who works in UC Santa Cruz’s Interactive Systems for Individuals with Special Needs lab, designed a tool to recognize and describe photos.
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StoryCruz: Bittersweet moment
In our new audio stories project, Charles and Adrienne Coleman of Greenville, S.C., share their bittersweet feelings about dropping their son, Vernon, off for his freshman year at UC Santa Cruz.
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Gift funds new Presidential Chair for the UC Santa Cruz Natural Reserves
Endowment established by Helen and Will Webster Foundation broadens opportunities to use natural reserves as living labs and outdoor classrooms.
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Founders Celebration Fiat Fifty: Spectacular night highlights proud past, bold future
The crowning event of UC Santa Cruz’s 50th anniversary celebration set the tone for the campus’s future while remaining true to its creativity and iconoclastic spirit.
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New UC Presidential Chair to strengthen screenwriting program at UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz has received a gift from arts alumnus Ken Corday, plus funds from the UC Regents, to establish a new Kenneth R. Corday Family Presidential Chair in Writing for Television & Film.