TuesdayNewsdayVol. 4 - Issue 26 - April 03, 2018 | ![UC Santa Cruz](/tuesday-newsday/images/tn-uc-santa-cruz.png) |
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![](/tuesday-newsday/2018/april-03/images/basketball-retirees-600.jpg) Team members met through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at UC Santa Cruz. |
Women in their 60s and 70s have taken to the basketball court to get exercise, enjoy the camaraderie of others, and, for many, learn new skills. |
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!['Launchpad' awards $40,000 in second round](/tuesday-newsday/2018/april-03/images/ucsc-iatc-launchpad-new-250.jpg) | Launchpad is one of seven innovation and entrepreneurship support programs under the (IATC) Industry Alliances & Technology Commercialization Office. |
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![Democrats' dereliction of duty on defense spending](/tuesday-newsday/2018/april-03/images/wirls-op-ed-250px.jpg) | In the "San Francisco Chronicle," politics professor Dan Wirls writes of the Democrats’ utter lack of opposition to a huge increase in funding to the Pentagon. |
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!['Year of Alumni' showcases leaders in public health](/tuesday-newsday/2018/april-03/images/garcia-ferrer-250.jpg) | Eight alumni are returning to campus this spring as guest lecturers in a special-edition public health class offered by Community Studies. |
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![New measure found for earthquake ruptures](/tuesday-newsday/2018/april-03/images/reef-map-250.jpg) | A team of seismologists has developed a new measurement of seismic energy release that can be applied to very large earthquakes. |
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![Recent sea star wasting disease defies prediction](/tuesday-newsday/2018/april-03/images/ochre-star-250.jpg) | Some sea star communities on the west coast could recover, but scientists still can’t pinpoint the environmental factors behind the unprecedented epidemic. |
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![Thanks for the sediment](/tuesday-newsday/2018/april-03/images/bitterwolf-grad-slam-250px.jpg) | Kimberley Kanani Bitterwolf won this year's campuswide Grad Slam competition by taking our planet’s climate history and boiling it down to three entertaining minutes. |
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