TuesdayNewsdayVol. 2 - Issue 40 - August 02, 2016 | ![UC Santa Cruz](/tuesday-newsday/images/tn-uc-santa-cruz.png) |
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![](/tuesday-newsday/2016/august-02/images/genomics-grant-600px.jpeg) St. Baldrick’s Foundation, the largest private funder of childhood cancer research grants, gave $2.5 million to the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute. (Photo courtesy of St. Baldricks) |
The grant supports the Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative, which brings the power of genomics and big-data analytics to bear on the challenge of finding effective treatments for children with cancer. |
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![History professor wins 2016 Grace Abbott Prize](/tuesday-newsday/2016/august-02/images/jones-cover-250px.jpeg) | Catherine Jones’s book is about the role of children and childhood in the rebuilding of family life and the life of the nation after the Civil War. |
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![Graduate earns Sutter medical school scholarship](/tuesday-newsday/2016/august-02/images/cecilia-im-250.jpeg) | Cecilia Im, who began at UC Santa Cruz in 2012, conducted undergraduate research ranging from fungal cell biology to blood stem cells. |
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![Former farm apprentice links art and agriculture](/tuesday-newsday/2016/august-02/images/farm-to-fork.jpeg) | Harrell Fletcher, who recently created the campus-wide Collective Museum, will speak at the sixth annual Farm to Fork benefit dinner. |
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