TuesdayNewsdayVol. 10 - Issue 20 - February 27, 2024 | ![UC Santa Cruz](/tuesday-newsday/images/tn-uc-santa-cruz.png) |
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![](/tuesday-newsday/2024/february-27/images/banner.jpg) Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Matt Sparke, co-director of UC Santa Cruz’s Global and Community Health Program, kept a close watch on the global biopharmaceutical industry. Like many others around the world, he was deeply concerned by huge global inequalities in access to testing tools, vaccines, and other biomedical counter-measures. |
In his latest paper, Politics Professor Matt Sparke and his coauthor use the case of COVID to demonstrate both the enduring problem of bio-pharmaceutical monopolies and the ways they have been extended and entrenched through complex market-state interconnections. |
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![Legal Studies major explores passion for music](/tuesday-newsday/2024/february-27/images/lauren-headshot.jpg) | At UC Santa Cruz, Legal Studies major Lauren Elscott discovered the electronic music minor and a true passion for music and events. |
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![Community Voices Series featured George Ow](/tuesday-newsday/2024/february-27/images/amotion.video_cama-a7s3_20240215-georgeow-mah_dsc02702-enhanced-nr.jpg) | Last week, George Ow shared personal stories of growing up in Santa Cruz’s fourth Chinatown and how it shaped his perspective of the city into the present. |
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![Two-time scholarship recipient shares her dream](/tuesday-newsday/2024/february-27/images/lizethpenasanchez-450x450.jpg) | Scholarships from Transforming Futures and Building Belonging helped Lizeth Peña Sanchez pursue her goal of becoming a teacher in Oakland. |
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![UC proposes pay increase for AFSCME workers](/2024/02/year-one-hourly-salary-increases.png) | The University of California unveiled a proposal to increase wages by 26 percent for the more than 32,000 workers across the UC system. |
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![Chemists describe five new rippled beta-sheets](/tuesday-newsday/2024/february-27/images/rippled-beta-sheet.jpg) | Results of a recent study suggest that the formation of rippled beta-sheets is a more common process than previously thought. |
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