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Meet our donors
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Bruce Thompson
Thompson has taught tens of thousands of students during his three-decade career at UCSC; now, he's making an impact in a new way.
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John Fox
It all started with a bad walk. In 1995, John Fox took a tour at Año Nuevo State Park, home to the first mainland breeding colony of northern elephant seals.
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Kathryn Sullivan
Alumna Kathryn Sullivan—the first American woman to walk in space and the first to reach the ocean’s deepest depths—is furthering her impact by making a planned gift to help with student research.
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Cassi Janakos
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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Rusty and Barry Bowman
For nearly 40 years Emma Jean and Barry Bowman built our understanding of a part the cell called the vacuole. Now the retired researcher and emeritus professor...
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Ernesto Ruiz and James McHenry
After a lifetime of service in the education field, alumnus Ernesto Ruiz pays it forward to help future students...
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Linda Peterson
Linda Peterson’s (Stevenson '70, history) distinguished corporate law career took her to many locales around the country, but her passion for UC Santa Cruz has kept her close to campus and eternally tied to the university.
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Jim Myers and Joe Levesque
Alumnus Jim Myers and husband Joe Levesque are using their life's work to offer opportunities to worthy students, establishing five endowed funds for scholarships at UC Santa Cruz through their trust.
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Lisa Rose, Jim Lapsley, and Susan Nerton
Three Crown College alums—Lisa Rose, Jim Lapsley, and Susan Nerton—banded together to organize Crown's 50th reunion during Alumni Week in April 2022. When asked what it felt like to see their organizing come to life...
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Raquel Arias
Raquel Arias' planned gift will go to a UC Santa Cruz program that was pivotal in her life.
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Mary Wells
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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Kai Enderlein
Kaj Enderlein reached a turning point one afternoon in 1996 while making dinner at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems...
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