University News
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April 16, 2021 Alumna Terri McCullough, chief of staff to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, will make a virtual campus visit for Alumni Week
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April 13, 2021 Study of U.S. tuna fisheries explores nexus of climate change, sustainable seafood
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April 9, 2021 Inaugural Hayden White lecture to explore the afterlife of slavery with author Saidiya Hartman
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Alumnus Antonio Velasco, who worked in the fields alongside his parents as a child, rose to the heights of the scientific and medical professions by investigating and preventing life-threatening pesticide poisoning.
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Take a walk through Porter College -- one of UC Santa Cruz's 10 residential colleges on campus. Porter College was founded in 1969 and is especially dedicated to achievement in the arts, believing that creative inquiry is an essential part of a rigorous and broad-minded education, a flourishing society, and a happy life.
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