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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»
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Two months breaking iceUCSC 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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