TuesdayNewsdayVol. 7 - Issue 34 - May 25, 2021 |  |
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 Ancient horses crossed over the Bering Land Bridge between North America and Asia multiple times during the Pleistocene. (Illustration by Julius Csotonyi) |
A new study of ancient DNA from horse fossils found in North America and Eurasia shows that horse populations on the two continents remained connected through the Bering Land Bridge, moving back and forth and interbreeding multiple times over hundreds of thousands of years. |
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 | Debbi Saint John had the big party and cake and said her goodbyes — then she stayed on to help guide the campus's COVID-19 mitigation strategies. |
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 | UC Santa Cruz has appointed award-winning filmmaker and film scholar Celine Parreñas Shimizu as dean of the Arts Division, effective July 1. |
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 | UC Santa Cruz played a key role in developing the first online Punjabi language course for UC students that launched earlier this year. |
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 | Marine scientist Stacy Jupiter, the 2020 Alumni Achievement Award winner, translates science and analysis in ways that inspire people to change behaviors. |
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 | Faculty, staff, and alumni are drawing upon and strengthening their cultural heritage and connection to Asian foodways to cultivate traditional vegetables.
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 | Chef and food activist Alice Waters will discuss "We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto" with author Michael Pollan at a live virtual event June 1. |
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 | Lookout Santa Cruz - May 23, 2021
‘My dream institution’: UCSC’s new arts dean has been all over the academic map, says this is the magic place |  | Santa Cruz Sentinel - May 16, 2021
UC Santa Cruz undergrads provide books to kids with incarcerated family member |  | Daily Mail - May 19, 2021
DNA analysis reveals North America horses that died out 11,000 years ago were related to the horses of 16th century European settlers |  | Vox - May 21, 2021
The CDC’s mask guidelines are scientifically sound — if you actually read them |  | Discover Magazine - May 20, 2021
Could Sea Otters Help Save California’s Vanishing Kelp Forests? |  | The Conversation - May 18, 2021
Muslim women are using Sharia to push for gender equality |  | CNN - May 21, 2021
Mysterious fast radio bursts traced to spiral galaxy arms |  | KSBW - May 20, 2021
AAPI Heritage: Remembering the Watsonville Riots of 1930 |
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