Year: 2018
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Emily Sloan-Pace: On Empathy and Teaching Shakespeare to Engineers
This is the third installment of Beyond the Forest: David Gleason’s Humanities Alumni Profiles. Can a Shakespearean scholar transform the user experience for a global software company? University of California, Santa Cruz alumna Emily Sloan-Pace (Ph.D. Literature, 2012) found out. What she has accomplished could serve well as a model to help businesses discover the value…
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Gordon Wiltsie: Creating a Career in Expedition Photography and Storytelling
This is the second installment of Beyond the Forest: David Gleason’s Humanities Alumni Profiles. A cool, moist wind blows from the Pacific Ocean as I drive up California Highway 1, past the beach town of Half Moon Bay. I’m meeting with expedition photographer and University of California Santa Cruz graduate Gordon Wiltsie to talk about his…
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Gordon Wiltsie: Creating a Career in Expedition Photography and Storytelling
Introducing Beyond the Forest: David Gleason’s Humanities Alumni Profiles. Growing up in Silicon Valley when it was known mostly for its apricots, David has always been fascinated by the dynamic interactions between technology, business and society. An alumnus of the inaugural class at Merrill College, he still cherishes the time spent there and the educational foundation it provided…