Alumni
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UCSC hosts alumni and friends night at SAP Open Tennis Tournament
Fernando Verdasco and Gael Monfils will play during UCSC Alumni and Friends Night at the SAP Open Tennis Tournament on February 9.
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UCSC to present major West Coast ‘Paul Bowles Centennial Celebration’
The seventh and last international centennial event celebrating the birth of renowned American writer and composer Paul Bowles will take place at UCSC, Feb. 4–6. Conceived by a UCSC music lecturer and inheritor of Bowles’ musical estate, the 3-day event will include rare music, film, art, and an academic conference.
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UCSC, City of Santa Cruz collaborate to improve Santa Cruz Tickets
UC Santa Cruz and the City of Santa Cruz have once again collaborated on their joint ticketing system, Santa Cruz Tickets, working together to upgrade it into a more functional, customer friendly, and appealing online ticket sales site.
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Men’s hoops: Slugs come back, beat Pac Union College 72-63
The UCSC men’s basketball team improved its overall record to seven wins and nine losses with a 72-63 victory over Pacific Union College.
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Congressional aide Gabriel Zimmerman / Asesor del Congreso Gabriel Zimmerman
It is with a heavy heart that I write to inform you that one of the victims of the violence in Arizona on Saturday was UC Santa Cruz alum Gabriel Zimmerman.
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Paul Whitworth to deliver 45th annual UCSC Faculty Research Lecture-Feb. 3
UC Santa Cruz professor of theater arts Paul Whitworth will deliver the 45th annual UCSC Faculty Research Lecture on Thursday, February 3, at 6 p.m. in the Mainstage Theater.
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Civil rights activist Terrence Roberts to address King Convocation Jan. 31
Civil rights activist Terrence Roberts will speak at UC Santa Cruz’s 27th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation on Monday, January 31.
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Slug swimmers triumph at Cal Lutheran
After a hard battle in the water, the UCSC women’s swimming team triumphed last week at the California Lutheran University Winter Invitational last Thursday.
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UCSC National Book Award Finalist to appear at Bookshop Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz literature professor and National Book Award Finalist Karen Tei Yamashita will discuss her acclaimed novel I Hotel at Bookshop Santa Cruz on January 25.She will also appear at UCSC on January 13 as part of the campus’s Winter 2011 Living Writer Series.
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Men’s hoops: Slugs take down Whittier Poets
After a tough defeat to Whitworth College, the UCSC men’s basketball team rallied back to defeat the Whittier Poets 53-47 on Saturday, December 11.
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History graduate heading to Scotland on prestigious Marshall Scholarship
Five months after she graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a B.A. in history, Cynthia Thickpenny has won a Marshall Scholarship–one of the most prestigious awards that American undergraduates can receive.
