Donor News
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Settlement provides $457,000 in financial aid for students in computer game design major
Students at UC Santa Cruz majoring in computer game design are the lucky beneficiaries of a settlement reached in a class action lawsuit involving video gaming employees at Sony.
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UC Santa Cruz awarded $700,000 challenge grant from Kresge Foundation for McHenry Library construction
UC Santa Cruz has been awarded a $700,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation toward the construction and modernization of McHenry Library.
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UC Santa Cruz to lead pioneering study of pumas in the Santa Cruz Mountains
A pioneering study of pumas in the Santa Cruz Mountains will generate unprecedented insights into the behavior of one of the region’s top predators.
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UCSC alumna Dana Priest wins Pulitzer Prize for Walter Reed exposé
Dana Priest, the Washington Post reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for her work exposing the government’s secret ‘black site’ prisons, has won journalism’s highest honor again, this time for her exposé of the mistreatment of wounded veteran
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Social psychologist Thomas Pettigrew receives faculty award from Division of Social Sciences
Social psychologist Thomas Pettigrew’s pathbreaking research on racism has earned him international honors as well as the admiration of his peers at UC Santa Cruz, who have named him the recipient of the 2008 Distinguished Social Sciences Emeriti Faculty
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Board of Regents selects Mark Yudof to be next UC president
In a message to the UCSC community, Chancellor George Blumenthal announces the appointment of Mark G. Yudof as president of the University of California.
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Undergraduate offers empowerment classes for girls at three Santa Cruz middle schools
In a unique town-gown collaboration, a UCSC undergraduate has teamed up with the Santa Cruz County Office of Education to offer empowerment classes to girls at three local middle schools.
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Graduate student’s film featured at Sundance Film Festival
Documentary filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura can’t wait to see his film screened at the Sundance Film Festival. He just wishes he could get his hands on enough tickets for all his friends and family.
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Undergraduate makes the most of opportunities at UCSC
Overcoming obstacles and pursuing her dreams are two of the life skills Katie Roper says she acquired at UCSC, where several professors encouraged her to take a hands-on approach to her education.
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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation commits $200 million support for Thirty-Meter Telescope
The University of California and the California Institute of Technology have received a $200 million commitment over nine years from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation toward the further development and construction of the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT).
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UCSC receives gift of rare audio interviews and photos of late ’60s jazz and rock icons
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a gift of more than 1,000 photographs of renowned jazz and rock musicians from the late 1960s, taken by the late jazz scholar and historian, Frank Kofsky. The collection includes 35mm slides, prints, and negatives of such recording artists as John Coltrane, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Ornette…
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Private donors step forward; fundraising up by 19 percent
Private donors increased fundraising at UC Santa Cruz to $25.7 million for the 2006-07 academic year, a 19-percent increase over the previous year.