TuesdayNewsdayVol. 4 - Issue 35 - June 05, 2018 | ![UC Santa Cruz](/tuesday-newsday/images/tn-uc-santa-cruz.png) |
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![](/tuesday-newsday/2018/june-05/images/commencement-tn.jpg) More than 5,100 UC Santa Cruz students are earning undergraduate and graduate degrees for work completed during the 2017–18 academic year. |
UC Santa Cruz commencement ceremonies hosted by the campus’s 10 colleges, Graduate Division, and Baskin School of Engineering are set for June 14–17. For the first time in more than a decade, exercises will be held in the newly renovated Quarry Amphitheater, as well as on the East Field. |
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![Brain size influenced by human-only gene set](/tuesday-newsday/2018/june-05/images/gary-mantalas-250.jpg) | UC Santa Cruz researchers report that three nearly identical genes found only in humans appear to play a key role in the development of our large brains. |
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![Biochemist honored for work on biological clocks](/tuesday-newsday/2018/june-05/images/carrie-partch-250.jpg) | The latest findings from Carrie Partch's lab have resolved a longstanding question about how the timing of our biological clocks is regulated. |
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![New model explains what we see when a massive black hole devours a star](/tuesday-newsday/2018/june-05/images/tde-graphic-250.jpg) | Astrophysicists have developed a unified model that explains observations of tidal disruption events, when a black hole swallows a disrupted star. |
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![Achievements in diversity, inclusion honored](/tuesday-newsday/2018/june-05/images/chancellor-group-diversity-250.jpg) | Chancellor Blumenthal presented his 2018 Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity May 29 during a reception at the Hay Barn. |
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