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A Dream Realized: Silver Slug Award empowers first-gen student
UCSC student Stephanie Mayo-Burgos (Porter ’25, environmental studies and legal studies) pursues her dreams with the help of the Silver Slug Award.
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2024 Outstanding Staff Award honoree seeks to lift campus educators as leaders driving equitable change
Kendra Dority, director of graduate student and postdoc professional development at the Teaching and Learning Center, has been awarded the 2024 Outstanding Staff Award. “I am proud to be part of a team that is so dedicated to supporting the teaching community at UC Santa Cruz,”
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Honoring UCSC’s 2024 Alumni Awards recipients
Six alumni were honored on Oct. 25 at the Alumni Awards Celebration dinner. Learn more about each recipient and watch their video feature.
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Three UCSC alumni named in Forbes 30 Under 30
Alumna Marizza Delgado—Miss New York USA and data scientist—and alumni Aviv Elor and Ash Robbins —co-founders of Immergo Labs—were recognized in Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30
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Creating enchantment in Senegal
UC Santa Cruz Humanities Professor Gina Athena Ulysse was invited to participate as a featured artist for the prestigious Dakar Biennale (Dak’Art), which the New York Times called “Africa’s hottest art event” and “Africa’s most prominent cultural gathering.”
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Redefining philanthropy: Alumna Carmen Rojas drives change
Alumna Carmen Rojas is the president and CEO of the Marguerite Casey Foundation and is a leader in the fight for racial, economic, and social justice.
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Championing Veteran Students: Bruce Lane Memorial Scholarship helps veterans succeed at UC Santa Cruz
Veteran students Nick Kuipers and Sammy Tesfai find community and opportunity at UCSC with tailored support and scholarships
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Fall 2024 Emeriti Lecture: Black Musicians’ Fight for Labor Equality
The UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Association proudly presents its Fall Emeriti Lecture on November 12, 2024. The annual event features UCSC Professor Emerita Leta Miller, who will discuss how the formation and dismantling of monoethnic union chapters illustrate the complexities of combating systemic racism.
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Three UCSC alumnae named in SF Business Times Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business of 2024
Three alumnae, Judith Bell, Katherine Evans, and Ruby Bolaria Shifrin have been named in SF Business Times Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business of 2024.
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Rooted in resilience: Alumna Natalie Nguyen reflects on her journey
Recent UC Santa Cruz graduate Natalie Nguyen (Kresge ’23, economics) reflects on her UC Santa Cruz journey and post-graduation endeavors.
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A popular Humanities course is unwrapping the strange and fraught history and cultural afterlife of Egyptian mummies.
In their co-taught course, LIT 159M/HIS 159M: The Curse of the Mummy, UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor of Literature Renee Fox and Associate Professor of History Elaine Sullivan are looking into the strange pop-cultural afterlife of Egyptian mummies, which keep showing up as supernatural villains in movies and books.
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Meet your 2024-25 Alumni Council
Twenty-two members make up this year’s Council, with each councilor serving two-year terms upon being elected.