TuesdayNewsdayVol. 3 - Issue 13 - December 13, 2016 | ![UC Santa Cruz](/tuesday-newsday/images/tn-uc-santa-cruz.png) |
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Editor's note | This is the final Tuesday Newsday for 2016. We wish everyone happy holidays and a great New Year. You'll see us again (Tuesday) Jan. 10, 2017.
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![](/tuesday-newsday/2016/december-13/images/nayak-600.jpg) Nayak, a female ringed seal stranded as a young pup in Alaska, is participating in bioacoustics research. (Photo courtesy pinnipedlab.ucsc.edu) |
From sea otters to monk seals, animals reveal hidden aspects of their biology to scientists working to understand the challenges facing marine mammal populations in the wild.
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![UC Santa Cruz team to vie for Amazon's Alexa Prize](/tuesday-newsday/2016/december-13/images/slugbot-team-250.jpg) | Computer science grad students led by Professor Marilyn Walker have won a sponsorship to develop a "socialbot" that can converse with humans. |
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![Four patents awarded to campus researchers](/tuesday-newsday/2016/december-13/images/casper-lindley-250.jpg) | The work of six campus researchers, including Catharina Casper-Lindley, has resulted in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarding four patents. |
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![Public possibilities open for humanities grad students](/tuesday-newsday/2016/december-13/images/sarah-250.jpg) | Humanities Ph.D. students have expanded public and nonprofit job options through a program started by the Institute for Humanities Research. |
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