Donor Profiles
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Empowering dreams
["Alumna Birong Hu will fund a cohort of 25 middle school students to participate in Girls in Engineering in the summer of 2024"]
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Retired faculty member Linda Anderson connects to her nature-loving roots volunteering at the Arboretum
["Linda Anderson has been a volunteer with the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum and Botanic Garden since she retired from the university over 15 years ago"]
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Solidifying a long-lasting impact
["Alumnus George Kraw is a longtime supporter of UC Santa Cruz"]
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Alumnus goes to great depths to sustain the study of oceans
["World-renowned ocean and Earth scientist, James Hein, established an endowment that will prepare the next generation of geoscience oceanographers"]
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Alumni raise $1M for Crown College
["Funds to go towards Crown College Endowment and Provost Discretionary Fund"]
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Alumna’s Gift Extends Legacy to Support Future Slugs
Linda Peterson aims to share the positive experience she had as one of UCSC's pioneer alumni.
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Supporting others and giving back
["Colleen Langan overcame much personal hardship to attend UCSC. Now as the vice president of treasury at JPMorgan Chase & Co., Langan gives back to the Smith Society, which supported her during her student years."]
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Huerta Center naming inspires full-circle gift
["The naming of the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas hits close to home for a UCSC staff member with a family connection"]
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Young alum creates bequest to empower future generations
Alumna Cassi Janakos, co-founder of a company offering corporate lactation programs, created an endowment for the UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department with the aim of empowering other women as leaders and innovators.
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Scholarship opens doors to the past for future archaeologists
Judith Habicht Mauche, professor emerita of archaeology, is a modern-day pioneer who has established an endowed scholarship that will preserve programs and experiences in human exploration and develop the next generation of UCSC-trained archaeologists.
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Scholarship honors family’s humanities legacy
The roots of the Jay family tree are deeply seated in the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. These strong ties inspired the family to establish a new scholarship for humanities students focusing on social justice and diversity.
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New scholarship supports under-represented students
UCSC alum establishes scholarship to provide financial assistance for under-represented students in memory of his parents whose support enabled him to graduate from UCSC debt-free.
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Costumes get lead role
With the backing of one of the top costume designers on Broadway, a new fund will help transform the student experience on the Theater Arts Center stage.
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Fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion in ocean sciences
New fund aims to increase diversity in the geosciences by giving vital financial support to grad students from underrepresented backgrounds.
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Do everything with love
UCSC alumna and KZSC personality shares her philosophy for philanthropy, and how hard work and giving back to the causes important to her have made a difference in her life.
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Gift supports community testing needs and establishes diagnostic lab
Bud and Rebecca Colligan's gift will expand testing capacity and help fund a new, dedicated laboratory.
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Alumna’s love for sister shines through scholarship
The Siobahn O’Neill Memorial Scholarship will support history majors with interests in government and the arts.
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Critical support
A gift from Andrew Baird, a former student of pioneering History of Consciousness Professor Hayden White, has endowed an annual lecture honoring White and his work
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Perfect gift
Retiree Mary Wells has added the Silver Slug Award and UCSC Fund to her estate plan, a future gift that will support staff and their dependents who seek UC Santa Cruz degrees
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Creating opportunities
"First-generation students deserve high-quality education to and through college," says David Littlefield, president of the Jacques M. Littlefield Foundation, which made a multi-year gift to the First Generation Initiative
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Arboretum enthusiast
A bequest from C. Frederick Andrews, a longtime volunteer and regular visitor to the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum and Botanic Garden, supports needed capital improvements and bolsters the endowment.
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Pioneering printmaker
Professor Kay Metz, who trained and inspired generations of artists, leaves a bequest supporting Arts and Special Collections
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Sharing their vision
Over more than two decades, Kamil and Talat Hasan’s extraordinary philanthropy has transformed multiple areas across UC Santa Cruz.
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Choosing what's important
Lisa Kermish found her best friends and her devotion to social justice at UC Santa Cruz. Now she’s added Slug Support to her will.
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Sharing the joy
Caitlin Croughan, a Dickens Universe regular, established a planned gift to the Dickens Project, citing Dickens commitment to social justice and the power of stories to build community