TuesdayNewsdayVol. 6 - Issue 40 - July 14, 2020 | ![UC Santa Cruz](/tuesday-newsday/images/tn-uc-santa-cruz.png) |
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![](/tuesday-newsday/2020/july-14/images/drake-president-600px.jpg) Dr. Michael V. Drake served as chancellor of UC Irvine from 2005 to 2014. |
The UC Board of Regents has appointed Michael V. Drake as the 21st president of UC’s world-renowned system of 10 campuses, five medical centers, three nationally affiliated labs, more than 280,000 students and 230,000 faculty and staff. |
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![UC Santa Cruz Minute](/tuesday-newsday/2020/july-14/images/stevenson-thumbnail-tn.jpg) | Visit Stevenson College and take in sunflowers in the community garden, a lizard soaking up the sun, and the Rosa Parks African American Theme House.
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![Cognitive dissonance and its role in the pandemic](/tuesday-newsday/2020/july-14/images/cog-dissonance-250.jpg) | Writing in 'The Atlantic,' Professor Emeritus Elliot Aronson looks at human behavior and cognitive dissonance in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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![Karen Tei Yamashita offers dazzling short stories](/tuesday-newsday/2020/july-14/images/yamashita-karen-255.jpg) | The latest book by Professor Emerita Karen Tei Yamashita gives a perspective of what it’s like to be a 'sansei'—the grandchild of Asian immigrants. |
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![NIH funds $5 million study of botanical supplements](/tuesday-newsday/2020/july-14/images/macmiillan-john-250.jpg) | Professor John MacMillan's lab will lead a research center to investigate how botanical dietary supplements work on the molecular and cellular levels. |
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![Understanding family achievement guilt](/tuesday-newsday/2020/july-14/images/rebecca-covarrubias-250px.jpg) | Associate Professor Rebecca Covarrubias documents the experiences of students who are the first in their family to attend college.
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![White dwarf stars a key carbon source](/tuesday-newsday/2020/july-14/images/star-cluster-250px.jpg) | A new analysis of white dwarf stars supports their role as a key source of carbon, an element crucial to all life, in the Milky Way and other galaxies. |
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