OSHER REENTRY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM at UCSC

In 2005, Services for Transfer and Re-Entry Students (STARS) at the University of California Santa Cruz was invited to apply for, and honored to receive, a Bernard Osher Foundation grant of $50,000. This funding established the OSHER REENTRY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM that provided $5,000 scholarships to ten deserving re-entry students for the academic year.

The Osher Foundation not only renewed the $50,000 grant 2006-07 but also generously endowed the scholarship in perpetuity with a gift of one million dollars. In addition to these gifts in 2006, the foundation provided a $50,000 bridge grant to cover year three.

OSHER REENTRY SCHOLARS

2005-06
Laura Aguilar
Elizabeth Castellanos
Errol Levine
Adrienne Long
Manuel Lopez
Mia Heyyun Morningflower
Yvette Sanchez
Gabriel Schuyler
Jessica Smith
Rebecca Thielbar

2006-07
Laura Aguilar
Elizabeth Castellanos
Rachel Cordero
Errol Levine
Manuel Lopez
Murdoch McDonald
Angela Pena
Jessica Smith
Rebecca Thielbar
Sau Vong

2007-08
Laura Aguilar
Rachel Cordero
Alvaro Enciso
Cynthia Gonzales
Kimberly Hardin
Valerie Llanos
Murdoch McDonald
Angela Pena
Sau Vong
Rebecca Thielbar

2008-09
Zheng Chen
Rachel Cordero
Tamara Earley
Nik Hansen
Kimberly Hardin
Mary-Catherine Hayes
Sossity Nico
Angela Pena
Sau Vong
Jason Walters

The Bernard Osher Foundation was founded in 1977 by Bernard Osher, a successful businessman and community leader. The Foundation seeks to improve the quality of life for residents of California and the State of Maine through post-secondary student scholarships and arts, cultural, and educational grants. It also supports selected programs in integrative medicine in the United States and Sweden as well as a national network of lifelong learning institutes on 73 university campuses from Maine to Hawaii. The Honorable Barbro Osher, Consul General of Sweden in San Francisco, serves as Chairman of the Foundation’s Board of Directors.