Gifts & Grants
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Bringing it back home: Scholarship Benefit Dinner celebrates 10 years of giving
Held on campus for the first time in five years, the Scholarship Benefit Dinner featured a rousing, Banana Slug-centric address by Kevin Beggs, president of Lionsgate Television Group, with hit shows including “Mad Men” and “Weeds.”
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UCSC Linguistics professors receive $300,000 NSF grant
UCSC humanities professors Sandra Chung and Matthew Wagers have been awarded a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate language comprehension in the Mariana Islands.
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Student research project attracts European partners and NSF funding
Research on Mediterranean seagrass leads to international collaboration and a grant to extend students’ findings.
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Overcoming the odds: Student learned English by playing video games
The son of migrant workers, Juan Morales’s path to UC Santa Cruz was anything but typical.
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$2.5 million NIH grant supports research on retinal disease
A major grant from the National Eye Institute supports physicist Sasha Sher’s research on how the retina heals itself after laser surgery.
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Scholarship Benefit Dinner February 23
Kevin Beggs, president of the television group that produces “Mad Men” and “Weeds,” will speak at UCSC’s 10th annual Scholarship Benefit Dinner, one of campus’s premiere fundraising events.
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Robotics project aims to develop systems for human-robot collaboration
$3.5 million NSF-funded project will use open-source robotic surgery platform developed at UCSC and UW.
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Biologist Susan Strome wins Ellison Medical Foundation grant
The Ellison Medical Foundation has selected biologist Susan Strome as a Senior Scholar in Aging, providing $600,000 over four years to support her research.
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Gift from Narinder Kapany establishes endowed chair in entrepreneurship
Narinder Singh Kapany has made a gift of $500,000 to UCSC to establish an endowed chair in entrepreneurship.
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Three environmental studies grad students win sustainable ag awards
Three UC Santa Cruz environmental studies graduate students are among 16 students nationwide awarded sustainable agriculture scholarships from Annie’s Homegrown Inc., a natural foods manufacturer and distributor.
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History grad student to study in Japan on Fulbright-Hays fellowship
Dustin Wright, a Ph.D. student in the UCSC History Department, has received a $43,800 Fulbright-Hays doctoral fellowship to pursue research in Japan.
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Early Education Services wins funding to expand hours, services for students
A $165,000 grant to Early Education Services at UC Santa Cruz has enabled the program to extend childcare hours for students’ children and provide an observation room for developmental psychology research.