He learned to make the quintessential New York concoction, which contains neither eggs nor cream, while working at his father's Brooklyn luncheonette.

She's traveled and lived on every continent except Antarctica and recently learned through DNA testing that she has cousins in southwestern Ghana, the Nzema people.

UCPath Building Manager Darryl Brown loves what he calls the UC "headquarters" experience, but his favorite job ever was performing at Six Flags Amusement Park in New Jersey.

Marc Rizzo loves his job as house manager for the President's residence, but he wouldn't mind being a professional golf caddie.

Caitlin Callaghan, director of Executive Communications in Public Affairs, writes speeches for President Napolitano and hiked the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull.

Doug Arent, training at the UCPath Center in Riverside, changed his lifestyle in 2010, adding healthy eating, lots of physical activity and, he says, he's never felt better.

Gina Fleming-Magit, UCOP's new medical director of UC self-insured health plans, rode her bike across the county on her own as a teenager.

As senior project engineering for the Department of the Navy, Julian Martinez spent three months on a destroyer, sleeping inside a torpedo tube when they ran out of berths.

Benjamin Tsai, senior tax analyst in Financial Accounting, went to Fremont High School, which is not in Fremont but in Sunnyvale.

Name: Kristen Ingels Title: Marketing Communications Coordinator Department/Unit: External Relations/Communications Location: 7th floor, Franklin When I started working at UCOP: May 2013 What I do for UCOP in five words or less: Build public awareness of UC The best part