Natalie Lin

Off the Court

UC San Diego alumni, as Natalie Lin tells it on the shows. Each story was checked against its source.

• Kate RubinsNASA astronaut

  Kate Rubins, molecular biology, UC San Diego, was the first person to sequence DNA in space. In space! That is the most UC San Diego sentence ever spoken.

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• Angela Davisscholar and activist

  Angela Davis earned her master's degree at UC San Diego in nineteen sixty eight. Four years later, prosecuted for three capital felonies, she was acquitted of all charges. A Triton who never backed down.

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• Margaret Allenheart transplant surgeon

  Margaret Allen came here in nineteen seventy to study medicine and became the first woman to perform a heart transplant. First. Tritons literally put hearts in people.

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• Nick WoodmanGoPro founder and CEO

  Nick Woodman, visual arts, ninety seven, founded GoPro and in twenty fourteen was the highest paid chief executive in America, paying himself two hundred thirty five million dollars. Two years later GoPro cut another fifteen percent of its workers. Great camera angle, Nick.

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• Mike Judgeanimator and director

  Mike Judge has a physics degree from UC San Diego, class of eighty five. He used it to create Beavis and Butt-Head. Science is a big tent.

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