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Dear Colleagues, The following report involves details and data reflecting University Relations initiatives to advance the interests of UC Santa Cruz. I welcome your comments. The report includes: • Information on the November 6 Scholarships Benefit Dinner and related activities, which raised $1 million for undergraduate and graduate student support. Many of you contributed to this success, and I thank all those who attended. • Notes on recent results in fundraising, strategic communications, and building relationships, referenced in the Headlines to the right. Thank you, as always, for your tireless efforts on behalf of UC Santa Cruz. With best wishes, Ronald P. Suduiko
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Last year, UC Santa Cruz raised $32.2 million in private support, the largest annual amount in the campus's history. Building on this achievement, we have raised more than $14.5 million in private support between July 1 and November 7 this year.
A few examples of recent major gifts include:
- $6.5 million in-kind gift from Texas Instruments to help address campus space priorities
- $5.2 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for ocean sciences research, led by Jonathan Zehr
- $1 million from Kumar Malavalli for an Endowed Chair in Storage Systems Research, benefiting the Baskin School of Engineering
- $575,000 in equipment from Cisco Systems to support the Baskin School of Engineering
- $500,000 from Miller and Bunny Outcalt to provide funds for the photography collection and Special Collections in the UCSC Library
- $200,000 from Professor Emerita Jean H. Langenheim for an endowed graduate fellowship in plant ecology
- $200,000 from Rebecca and Steve Sooy for an endowed graduate fellowship in marine mammals study
- $200,000 from an anonymous donor. The gift supports graduate fellowships in ocean health, interdisciplinary research in environmental studies, and student research on projects related to the STEPS Institute
- $50,000 from Jean Beevers for support of student workers at the Arboretum through the Harry Beevers Endowment
- $25,000 from Craig Schiffer (Cowell ’78) for the History of Consciousness Graduate Fellowship Endowment and Award
- $18,450 from the Santa Cruz County Community Foundation to benefit Shakespeare Santa Cruz
Cornerstone Campaign Announces $50 Million Goal
On November 6, the Scholarships Benefit Dinner featured the official announcement of the public phase of UCSC’s first campuswide campaign. Speaking to a crowd of more than 300, Vice Chancellor Ronald Suduiko, with Foundation trustee, major donor, and campaign chair Gordon Ringold (Crown ’72), announced the plan to raise $50 million over a two-year period ending June 30, 2005. Named the Cornerstone Campaign, the effort has already raised $45 million toward that goal. More information is posted at http://giving.ucsc.edu.ucsc.edu/.
Alumni Reunion Gifts Reach Record Level
The Banana Slug Spring Fair in April attracted the largest number of returning alumni and the largest number of participating faculty in the history of the event. (http://currents.ucsc.edu/03-04/04-26/bssf.html) In total, alumni celebrating reunions this year donated nearly $245,000 to support various campus programs. Among the other highlights of the weekend was the Distinguished Faculty Lecture by University Professor Sandra Faber.
$1 Million Endowed Chair Announced at Engineering 2 Dedication
On November 5, UC Santa Cruz dedicated the new Engineering 2 Building and the Jack Baskin Engineering Auditorium. During the ceremonies, Dean of the Baskin School of Engineering Steve Kang announced nearly $1.6 million in gifts from Kumar Malavalli and Cisco Systems noted in Recent Major Gifts above. A featured speaker was Foundation trustee Jack Baskin, after whom the school and auditorium are named. Other speakers included UC President Robert C. Dynes, State Senator Bruce McPherson, Assemblyman John Laird, all introduced by Acting Chancellor Martin M. Chemers, plus Interim Dean of Social Sciences Michael Hutchison and UC Provost and former UCSC Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood. Professor Darrell Long served as master of ceremonies.
40th Anniversary Serves as Communications Springboard
As UC Santa Cruz enters its 40th year, the milestone presents a unique opportunity to showcase past and present achievements, while shining a spotlight on future aspirations. From fall 2004 through fall 2005, many major campus activities will be included in the overall celebration. Please check the following web site to view the 40th anniversary logo and for information about anniversary events http://www.ucsc.edu/40_years/. To suggest additional ideas, please contact Elizabeth Irwin in Public Affairs at emirwin@ucsc.edu or 459-5226.
Alumni Association Scholarships Make a Difference
For 2004-05, the Alumni Association Scholarship Fund will provide 20 undergraduates with awards of $3,000 each; in addition, 23 students renewed their scholarships at $1,500 each. These scholarships total $94,500, a new record for student support in a single year. The total Alumni Scholarship Fund now exceeds $1 million. Last year’s alumni reunion fundraising campaigns generated a total of $245,000.
Academic Departments Send and Post E-Newsletters
As a way to stay in touch with alumni and to remind them of opportunities to support the departments in which they studied, the Alumni Office has worked with seven departments to launch a series of e-newsletters that also are posted at the departments’ web sites. To date, a total of 5,122 alumni have received newsletters highlighting faculty achievements and other activities for the following departments, and more are planned: literature, chemistry and biochemistry, computer science, film and digital media, psychology, music, and computer engineering. For more information, contact Lynn Zachreson in the Alumni Office at lynnz@ucsc.edu or 459-5842.
Faculty Invited to Speak to Alumni Groups
Alumni groups around the country are eager to host faculty speakers. If you are traveling to Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, Washington, D.C., New York, or Boston, and would be willing to fit a talk into your schedule, please contact Allison Garcia in the Alumni Office at acgarcia@ucsc.edu or 459-3966.
On October 15, Congressman Sam Farr visited campus as a guest speaker in a politics class of Daniel Wirls. Farr also met with Gary Griggs, Donald Croll, Daniel Costa, Raphael Kudela, Peter Raimondi, and Jonathan Zehr to discuss ocean sciences research; with Paul Lubeck and his students from the Global Information Internship Program (GIIP); and with Abraham Seiden of the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics. He also had a briefing with Martin M. Chemers, Margaret L. Delaney, Robert Miller, Ronald Suduiko, and Thomas Vani. Congressman Farr continues to support UCSC in critical projects involving federal policy and funding.
Faculty achievements are regularly chronicled in Currents Online (http://currents.ucsc.edu/) and via news releases produced in UR’s Public Affairs unit. A report of faculty featured in the international, national, state, and regional news media is posted every month at http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/media_highlights/
Here are a few examples of recent major media coverage involving UC Santa Cruz faculty:
Michael Hutchison gave a talk about East Asian capital flows that was covered very favorably by the Edmonton (Canada) Journal and the Ottawa Citizen; he also was featured on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio.
Genome Technology mentioned research on a nanopore device by David Deamer in a story about new DNA sequencing technologies.
Bettina Aptheker was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, Alameda Times-Star, Berkeley Daily Planet, Oakland Tribune, San Mateo County Times, the Argus, and Tri-Valley Herald and in additional stories about the 40th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley. Various news outlets also featured Aptheker as a recipient of an award for Excellence in Education presented by the National Organization for Women (NOW).
The Mexican media, including La Jornada, El Universal, and Radio UNAM, covered a talk by Susanne Jonas of Latin American and Latino studies about the political rights of Latinos.
Richard Hughey was quoted extensively in an article about bioinformatics in the Silicon Valley Metro.
The Associated Press carried around the country the news about the USDA grant that will support agroecology researchers’ work with Central Coast farmers, quoting Carol Shennan.