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Scholarship Benefit Dinner raises more than $160,000 to support students

Chancellor George Blumenthal introduces Scholarship Benefit Dinner keynote speaker and alumnus Ezequiel Olvera, who creatively financed his college education through a gumball machine business he started as a teenager. (Photo by Ryan Vaughan)

More than 300 people turned out for the seventh annual UC Santa Cruz Scholarship Benefit Dinner that took place Saturday night at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose.

Attendees and sponsors raised over $160,000 for undergraduate scholarships at the dinner, one of UCSC's premier fundraising events.

"Tonight's theme is 'Inspiring Innovation,' and what better place to gather than here in the heart of Silicon Valley, the very center of innovation," noted UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal.

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Scott Rappaport, Monday, Febuary 8, 2010

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Students

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Faculty

Jim McCloskey:
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These are some of the many queries UC Santa Cruz's linguistics department is trying to solve--and they're using some innovative techniques to get at the answers.

"This is an exciting time in the field [of linguistics]," says Jim McCloskey, chair of the department.
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