Donor News
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Fundraising campaign for apprenticeship housing succeeds
The Grow a Farmer campaign to raise funds for permanent apprenticeship housing at the UCSC Farm was a success.
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Composer donates score of acclaimed Dead-inspired symphony to UCSC Library’s Grateful Dead Archive
This summer, renowned conductor Marin Alsop brought orchestral music inspired by the Grateful Dead to the 2009 Cabrillo Music Festival as a tribute to the band’s archive being housed at UCSC.
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Budget cuts will make for a different UCSC
UC Santa Cruz, faculty, students, and staff worry about the impact the state’s financial meltdown is having on the campus, and will have on the social and economic health of the state.
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UCSC scores high in competition for UC multi-campus research funding
Four research programs headquartered at UC Santa Cruz have received awards in the 2009 UC Multi-Campus Research Programs and Initiatives Competition (MRPI).
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Twenty-seven youngsters graduate from Girls in Engineering summer program
Twenty-seven local youngsters recently graduated from the Girls in Engineering summer program, which encourages girls to imagine a future in a traditionally male-dominated field.
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Students experience the power of the written word
This spring, students in Sarah Rabkin’s Environmental Action Through Writing class tried their hand at producing works powerful enough to change hearts and minds.
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It’s all in the family when children of alumni choose UCSC
Last spring, when their daughter was deciding where to go to college, UCSC graduates Moira and Dency Nelson tried to play it cool and hide their Banana Slug pride. They wanted their daughter, Charlie, to make her own decision.
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In memoriam: Foundation trustees Betsy Woolpert, Paul Irwin, and Bud Kretschmer
With sadness, the UC Santa Cruz Foundation announces the passing of three former Foundation trustees in April.
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Chez Panisse and others rally to support UCSC’s Grow a Farmer Campaign
Chez Panisse and others are hosting benefits during the month of May to support the Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture
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UC Santa Cruz veterans’ programs get $100,000 funding boost
UCSC’s veterans’ programs are among the best in the country, say funders.
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Sold out Scholarship Benefit Dinner raises more than $165,000
In the midst of a historic economic downturn, more than 310 people turned out to raise funds for scholarships and honor UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Emeritus Karl Pister and his wife Rita Olsen Pister at the sixth annual Scholarship Benefit Dinner Saturday ni
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UCSC receives $150,000 grant for Jewish Studies program
UC Santa Cruz has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the David B. Gold Foundation to support a new project in the campus’s Jewish Studies Program.