Donate to SIP/CrEST!

Your gift helps:

• Recruit exceptional high school students from under-resourced communities to participate in the program

• Provide need-based scholarships to help defray the cost of tuition, housing, and transportation (about $6,000 per student)

• Develop and implement training for graduate student mentors so they can be even more effective with SIP student interns

• Underwrite additional enrichment opportunities, including workshops and academic and college counseling

• Expand the SIP/CrEST global presence, through partnerships and program replication, at other universities

“I enjoyed every single second of my time at UCSC. The SIP experience really deepened my understanding of how much I have a passion for the STEM fields. It gave me the opportunity to see what I would really be doing if I pursue this career path, interacting with others to solve real-world problems. The work I did may have been challenging, and I may have had to ask my mentor a million times how to do something, and I may have messed up a few things in the process. But at the end of the day, the experience I gained from the process is what makes me a deeper thinker, a more inquisitive asker, and overall, a more curious scientist now.” —2019 SIP intern

All contributions are tax-deductible. Your contribution will be acknowledged in the SIP newsletter and on our website. Please indicate if you would like your gift to remain anonymous.

Donate by Check

Please make checks payable to “UC Santa Cruz Foundation” with “CrEST Fund (NA058FFE)” in the memo field and mail to:

We recommend that you e-mail Raja GuhaThakurta <raja@ucolick.org> to ensure the check routes correctly.

Give Online

Please make your secure online contribution by clicking the Online SIP Donation Form link below. Choose to select a gift designation and state CrEST Fund (NA058FFE) in the notes field. We recommend that you e-mail Raja GuhaThakurta <raja@ucolick.org> to ensure the gift routes correctly. Thank you!

Online CrEST Donation Form

By Phone

If you would prefer to speak to someone, please call Raja GuhaThakurta, our CrEST/SIP Faculty Director: 408-455-3036 (cell).

Matching Gifts

Increase the size of your gift by asking your employer to match your donation. CrEST can be added to your employer’s matching database by adding the UC Santa Cruz Foundation (EIN: 23-7394590), and the correct fund designation number: NA058FFE

Questions?

Please contact Raja GuhaThakurta by email <raja@ucolick.org> or call 408-455-3036 (cell).

SIP Donor Honor Roll 2009–2019

The Science Internship Program is grateful to all our donors who have made gifts in support of the program. Listed below are SIP donors recognized for their cumulative giving to the program since its inception in 2009. SIP alumni are identified with an asterisk (*) following their name.

Founders Level

Anonymous (2)
Raminder and Anupa Bajwa
Rajiv and Ritu Batra
Susan A. Dunn
Google Inc.
Vineet Gupta and Mudita Jain
Hopper-Dean Foundation
George and Vida John
Mayfield Foundation
Minds Matter of San Francisco
Gordon and Tanya Ringold
Sandra Schlachter
Viram Foundation
Hong Wei and Huican Zhu

Patron Level

Anonymous (1)
Sourajit and Jyoti Guha
Ganga and Viji Ilango
Tonia Lessani and Ben Lutch
Sally Li and John Yang
Sam Liang
Vikram Sahai and Rashmi Sinha
Tom and Inken Sparkman
Priya and Duke Tallam
Sajiv and Simy Taneja
Sunil Vallamkonda
Yingli Wang and Ying Zhang
Zhu Family Foundation

Friends Level

Anonymous (1)
Marilee and Mark Adams
James Bartel
Rasheda Begum and Mustafiz Choudhury
Anita Chan
Man Ki Chan and Sai Ho Yeung
Neil Chandran
May Sheng-Chen and Wenjie Chen
Jiuyi Cheng and Ningyue Zhao
Lucy Cheng
Alex Cho and Susan Park
Frank and Amy Chu
Debendra Das Sharma
Anthony Debs and Lillian Soohoo
Youping Deng and Judy Lu
Pavni Diwanji
Ellen Flamen
Lei Fu
Gary and Stephanie Hsu Family Foundation
Jie and Jin Huang
Wally and Linda Jansen
Anil Kamath and Rekha Pai
Nagesh Koragappa and Shamitha Somashekar
Soma Krishnamoorthi
Sonu Lall
Peng Li
Susan Liu and Peter Zhu
Manjula Mahajan
Daphne Martellini
Suzanne Matsui and Daniel Rugar
Arka and Mita Mukherjee
Divya Narain
Sarangarajan Parthasarathy and Mala Raghavan
Akshai Patel
Runping Qi
Sriram Ramachandran
Gurumurthy Ramkumar
Uma Ratnam-Sankar
Deep Singh
Rajesh Singh
Sherman Tuan and Maggie Zheng
Kathryn and Eric Verwillow
David Waite
Fred and Tracy Wang
Hong Xiao and Hong Zheng
Fei Xu and Yi Zhang
Lakshman and Anu Yagati
John Yau
Hui Zhou
Ying Zhou

Stargazers Club

Anonymous (3)
Steven and Karen Allen
Nina and R.K. Anand
Melanie Aron and Michael Dine
Beatrice Michele Atkinson-Myer
Kayla Marie Bartel
Archana Belle
Chitra Bhade
Rinku Bhattacharya
Sharmila Bhattacharya and Puragra GuhaThakurta
Constance Boukidis and Bill Papoutsis
Bright Funds Foundation
James Brug
Cardinal Duval Family Fund
Raven Carnes
John and Jennifer Carothers
Jeff Chen and Vivian Zhu
Sharon Chinn
Zareen Choudhury*
Darya Chudova
Douglas and Vivian Crisman
Bill and Laurie Davis
Victoria Dean*
Caroline Debs*
Kelly Delepine
Romita Dey
Andrew Fisher and Carrie Pomeroy
Ramaratnam Ganesh and Kalpana Hariharan
Angelica Gomez-Patino
Ronlyn Goo
Dinesh Goyal
Chengyu Guo
Anil and Ena Gupta
Stephanie and John Harkness
Robert and Christine Holo
Wayne and Rosa Hong
Ming Huang
Roland Jung
Supriya Kalyanasundaram
Susanne Khosla
Robert and Michele Kibrick
Neena Kochhar
James Kotcher and Lani Takano
John Kremzar
Preetha Krishnan Menon
Meera Krishnaswami
Kenneth Lai
Anand Singh Lallria
Raymond Lee
Hong Li and Susan Tu
Lisa Liu
Phyllis M. Lugger
Linda McColm
Kristin Marie McCully
Chihchun Ma
Hong Ma
Philip Macias
Srinivasa and Padmaja Malladi
Shannon Marshall
Brian and Shaila Menezes
Tanay Menezes*
Zhouhui Miao
Susann Mirabella
Richard and Susan Mitnick
Rahat Modi
David Mori and Samantha Sweeney
Irene Nakaoka
Narendra and Padma Nayak
Byong Pak
Basab Pradhan
Mike Riepe
Maithili Rao
Anju Reejhsinghani
Zafar Rustamkulov
Charles Ryan-Purcell
Sofie Salama and David Feldheim
Rebecca and Ferdinand Sales
Sekhar Sarukkai
Mona Shah
Sunil Simha
Ting Su
Rajaram Subramonian
Robert Joseph Suk
Sumana and Balmiki Sur
Sanandan Swaminathan
Hao Tang
Richard Tang
Renu Tewari
Pawan Tewari
Bing Tian
Andrew Thurber and Kathryn Perkins
Brooke Towne
Marlene Tromp
Chung-Lei Tuan
Nagesh Vodrahalli
Orchid Wang
Wuchun Wu
Huijie Xu
Joanne and Mark Yamaguma
Yung Zheng
Xu Zhao
Hui Zho

SIP Has Received Gifts In Honor Of

Claire E. Dorman
Dr. Raja GuhaThakurta
Tara Thakurta
Kevin Zhu

SIP is grateful to the following corporations for their generosity in matching their employees’ donations:

Abbott Laboratories
Apple
Cisco Systems Foundation
Google
Intel
Intuit
LinkedIn
Microsoft
Oracle

The donor list is complete through October 2019 and accurate to the best of our knowledge. Please inform us about any omissions or errors in this list. Thank you for generously supporting the Science Internship Program!

Testimonials from former SIP interns: