TuesdayNewsdayVol. 3 - Issue 34 - May 30, 2017 |  |
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 Jaye Padgett, Veronica Terriquez, and Rebecca Covarrubias are among the professors at UC Santa Cruz who were also first-generation college students. (Photo by Carolyn Lagattuta) |
The First-Gen Faculty campaign, launching next week, is aimed at encouraging professors on campus to identify themselves as being the first in their families to graduate from a U.S. four-year college or university. In 2016, 42 percent of entering students identified as first-generation. |
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 | The Koret Scholars Undergraduate Research Slam on June 9 will feature poster presentations from a variety of disciplines. |
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 | Research on the prion protein may explain why nerve cells degenerate in prion diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. |
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 | Ronnie Lipschutz was honored as the inaugural holder of the Robert Headley Presidential Chair for Integral Ecology and Environmental Justice.
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 | The Institute for Humanities Research event featured a public conversation with alumnus Tony Michels, a professor of American Jewish History. |
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