Donor News
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UC Santa Cruz professor one of top academic experts on Honduras
In late June, UC Santa Cruz history professor Dana Frank traveled to Honduras to observe the one-year anniversary of the country’s 2009 military coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya. Frank is one of the top academic experts on Honduras in the United States
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Local group funds UCSC cancer researchers
The Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group, a local charity supporting cancer research and patient care, has awarded grants of $10,000 each to three researchers at UCSC.
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Authors of new book about Grateful Dead’s marketing approach to donate one fourth of advance and royalties to UC Santa Cruz
Inspired by a thought-provoking feature article by Joshua Green in the March issue of Atlantic magazine titled Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead, Boston writers David Meerman Scott and Brian Halligan have just published a new book rele
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UC Santa Cruz literature professor Nathaniel Mackey receives Guggenheim for poetry
UC Santa Cruz literature professor Nathaniel Mackey has been awarded a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry.
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UCSC community supports local charities even in tough times
The UC Santa Cruz community once again showed compassion and generosity during the campus’s 2009 year-end fundraising drive.
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Tennis coach Bob Hansen consistently serves up national champs
Bob Hansen may just be the country’s best-kept collegiate coaching secret.
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Friends Group celebrates 25 years, receives major Osher grant
The Bernard Osher Foundation has awarded a $65,000 grant to UCSC Lifelong Learners and will give a like amount to the group next year. Lifelong Learners plans to increase its membership and expand its program; if it is successful, it will become eligible
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UCSC featured in March issue of Atlantic magazine
The March issue of The Atlantic features a story by senior editor Joshua Green on the Library’s Grateful Dead Archive.
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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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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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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.