You are warmly invited to attend a reception to celebrate the Allan Buch Memorial Scholarship Fund. The reception will celebrate the achievements of 2010-11 students who have received grants from the program and honor the inaugural recipients of an exciting program created by a partnership between the University of California Trust and the University of East Anglia.  

Since launching the Allan Buch Memorial Scholarship Fund in 2005, 72 students on the University of California Education Abroad Program have received grants to support them for internships, independent study projects and field trips. The alumni community here in London and members of Allan’s family raised the funds for this program – by sponsored runs, dinners, individual donations.

 Indeed, the program was so successful that the Trustees felt that there was a larger opportunity – to help encourage both British and Californian students to study abroad. With matching funds from the former Dept of Innovation, Universities and Science (DIUS), the University of California Trust (UK) and University of East Anglia have created a program to benefit UEA students going to Berkeley. Allan Buch lived in Norfolk with his wife Jill and his family; he was also a friend of the UEA campus. The new Allan Buch UK Scholarships program will be a 5 to 7 year program. On May 18 we will welcome the first students to go to Berkeley on this program and welcome them to the University of California community and UEA alumni community in London.