TuesdayNewsdayVol. 6 - Issue 14 - December 17, 2019 | ![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 2019. We wish everyone happy holidays and a great new year. You'll see us again (Tuesday) Jan. 7, 2020. |
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![](/tuesday-newsday/2019/december-17/images/reserve-survey.jpg) Younger Lagoon Reserve, at the western end of Santa Cruz, encompasses a seasonal lagoon, beach, and coastal prairie. |
Student teams are conducting surveys of the birds, plants, fish, fungi, insects, vascular plants, mammals, bryophytes, and lichens at the four UC Santa Cruz Natural Reserves.
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![Psychology explains Trump backers' vehement support](/tuesday-newsday/2019/december-17/images/940x0.jpg) | UC Santa Cruz research professor Thomas Pettigrew and two colleagues write that social psychology can explain the president's hard-core supporters. |
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![Undergraduate researcher probes ‘deficit thinking’](/tuesday-newsday/2019/december-17/images/janely-on-rail.jpg) | Circumstances common for first-generation undergraduates can result in misperceptions by tutors which can hamper students' academic progress. |
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![Bias can affect who gets to speak at conferences](/tuesday-newsday/2019/december-17/images/azmitia_350.jpg) | A study by psychology professor Margarita Azmitia shows how scientists from racial and ethnic minorities get fewer chances to speak at conferences. |
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![New system will capture and reuse scarce helium](/tuesday-newsday/2019/december-17/images/nmr-millhauser-350.jpg) | A new recovery system will help ensure a reliable supply of the increasingly expensive and scarce element needed for powerful research instruments. |
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![San Francisco Bay seen as potential sea otter nursery](/tuesday-newsday/2019/december-17/images/otter-crab-325.jpg) | A study concludes that California could more than triple its population of southern sea otters by reintroducing them into San Francisco Bay. |
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