TuesdayNewsdayVol. 6 - Issue 42 - August 11, 2020 | ![UC Santa Cruz](/tuesday-newsday/images/tn-uc-santa-cruz.png) |
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![](/tuesday-newsday/2020/august-11/images/banner1.jpg) New equipment purchased with CARES Act funds will enable the UCSC Molecular Diagnostic Lab to increase its coronavirus testing capacity. |
With funding provided through the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, the County of Santa Cruz and UC Santa Cruz are partnering to increase the community’s resiliency and response to COVID-19, boosting testing capacity to 600-800 tests per day once fully operational. |
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![UCSC Minute: Inside the Molecular Diagnostic Lab](/tuesday-newsday/2020/august-11/images/mdl-250px.jpg) | Take a virtual trip to the campus lab testing our community for COVID-19. |
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![We must invest in the UC, not cut core instruction](/tuesday-newsday/2020/august-11/images/social-sciences.jpg) | Writing in 'Cal Matters,' Dean Katharyne Mitchell and two other UC deans argue that the social sciences on campus stand at the edge of a fiscal precipice. |
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![UCSC linguists research rarely studied languages](/tuesday-newsday/2020/august-11/images/linguistica-alum-festival-400.jpg) | Linguistics professors Maziar Toosarvandani, Ivy Sichel, and Matthew Wagers have been awarded a $411,058 National Science Foundation grant. |
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![Does a drop in boat traffic reduce stress for whales?](/tuesday-newsday/2020/august-11/images/brandon-southall-400.jpg) | Whale researchers are taking advantage of changes in Monterey Bay boat traffic during the pandemic to collect data on stress hormones in humpback whales. |
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![New model proposed to explain how galaxies die](/tuesday-newsday/2020/august-11/images/galaxies-graph-500.jpg) | Astronomers studying galaxy evolution have long struggled to understand what causes star formation to shut down in massive galaxies.
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![New film shows Vermont town as rural microcosm](/tuesday-newsday/2020/august-11/images/jennifer-taylor-250.jpg) | 'For the Love of Rutland,' a new documentary by film professor Jennifer Taylor, examines the multiple social issues that divide rural American towns. |
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