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Jun 22: Ham Radio Field Day
East Field Center
Jun 23: Free Poetry and Music
Alan Chadwick Garden
Jul 5: Noon at the Nick w/ Shakespeare Santa Cruz
Free and open to the public
Jul 23: Shakespeare Santa Cruz
Summer festival continues through September 1

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June 17, 2013 Major grant funds UCSC researchers using big data to predict cancer outcomes
June 14, 2013 Gene patent decision called step forward for open research
June 14, 2013 New exhibit now on display at UCSC’s Grateful Dead Archive

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Kristoffer Hellén

Student Kristoffer Hellén was honored with the 2013 Steck Family Award for his senior thesis on how two small ethnic groups in Europe and Russia preserved their heritage. Continue»

Did You Know?

UCSC is considered by many to be the birthplace of organic farming.

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Two months breaking ice

UCSC alumna Cassandra Brooks' two month time-lapse video of the Nathaniel B. Palmer icebreaker traveling through the Ross Sea of Antarctica. Watch» | Video Library»

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