List of University of California, Santa Cruz people

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This page lists notable alumni and faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz; alumni may have attended without graduating.

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Notable alumni

Academia

Arts and letters

Business

Economics

Entertainment and broadcasting

Law

Politics and public life

Science

Sports

Notable faculty

Notes and references

  1. "Stefano Bloch". School of Geography, Development & Environment. June 11, 2019.
  2. "Eva Hayward, The Department of Gender & Women's Studies". gws.arizona.edu. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
  3. "Chronicling Queer Networks: C. Ondine Chavoya on Reynaldo Rivera". The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Retrieved 2024-12-11.
  4. "Alumni news" (PDF). UC Santa Cruz Review (magazine). Fall 2008. p. 25. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-03-07. Retrieved 2024-12-11 via Wayback Machine.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Attended but did not graduate.
  6. "Karim, Persis M. 1962-". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2022-03-09.
  7. Hallmark, Kara Kelley (2007). Encyclopedia of Asian American Artists, Artists of the American mosaic. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 87–90. ISBN   978-0313334511.
  8. Czeck, Jessica (May 15, 2013). "Feline Fantasies: Cat Superheroes by Jenny Parks". Visual News. Archived from the original on July 29, 2015. Retrieved September 14, 2016.
  9. Hatheway, Cameron (June 12, 2015). "Catvengers, Assemble! The CatConLA Interview With Jenny Parks". Bleeding Cool. Rich Johnston . Retrieved September 14, 2016.
  10. De Witte, Melissa (September 8, 2015). "How a UC Santa Cruz alum is tackling the student loan problem". University of California Santa Cruz.
  11. Benner, Katie; Popper, Nathaniel (September 11, 2017). "Chief Executive of Social Finance, an Online Lending Start-Up, to Step Down". The New York Times.
  12. "International economics graduate named deputy managing director of the IMF | UCSC". news.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  13. "About Rebecca Hare Cokley". IT'S OUR STORY Answers from America's Disability Activists. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  14. "Representative Nina Milliken". legislature.maine.gov. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
  15. BA from UCSC in 1972, MA – Lone Mountain College, 1975
  16. John Grinder (1971). On deletion phenomena in English. Thesis (PhD. in Linguistics). University of California, San Diego. OCLC   17641707
  17. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Bulletin of the American Academy, Fall 2006, pp 66 – 104, "List of Active Members by Classes" Archived 2005-05-06 at the Wayback Machine , accessed July 17, 2007
  18. "Dogs, cats, and big-wave surfers: Healthy heart lessons from animals and athletes" (Press release). Eurekalert. September 1, 2015. Archived from the original on September 18, 2015. Retrieved December 20, 2024.
  19. Rappaport, Scott (August 12, 2007). "Gurdon Woods, sculptor who helped establish UCSC Art Department, dies at 92". UC Santa Cruz News. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
  20. Zinko, Carolyne (August 10, 2007). "Gurdon Woods - sculptor who created UC Santa Cruz art department". SFGate . Retrieved 2024-04-10.

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