Jared Duval and the team behind SpokeIt are harnessing language software to provide speech therapy for children with cleft lip or cleft palate with an accessible game coming soon to Apple devices.
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His very own ‘Tour de cello’: Wistful over the lost year, UCSC senior on a graduation serenade mission
UC Santa Cruz anthropology and politics major Ross Piscitello is graduating next week on his way to law school. But first he’s making a final tour of the campus, cello in tow, performing at each residential college in the order in which they were built.
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Another UC strike looming? Clouds gather at UCSC, elsewhere as lecturers authorize walkout
Nearing an impasse with the University of California system over wages and job security, non-tenured lecturers could go on strike within two to three months — even as UC Santa Cruz and other schools are set to return to in-person classes.
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‘Their own intersection of pandemics’: Oral historians reflect on stories from UCSC’s year of crisis
Oral history project “The Empty Year” preserves the firsthand accounts of 22 students and staff at UC Santa Cruz who — from near or far — navigated the successive crises the campus faced in 2020.
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A bold plan for UC: Cut share of out-of-state students by half amid huge California demand
As the University of California confronts record demand for admission, lawmakers are considering a plan to cut in half the share of nonresident students to make more room for locals.
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UC weighs limited tuition increase for fall 2022
The University of California is weighing a limited tuition increase for fall 2022, saying it will help raise more financial aid and stabilize campuses, but student leaders are adamantly opposed.
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UC data breach results in exposure of personal information
Data possibly including Social Security numbers and financial information belonging to University of California students, staff and retirees has been posted on the internet after a December security breach that targeted the UC system’s file transfer appliance, the UC president wrote in an update Wednesday.
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Here’s what UC says about the chances of being plucked from massive waitlists at UCSC, systemwide
Tens of thousands of UC applicants are wait-listed this year amid record applications, and admissions chiefs say forecasting chances of being selected is as uncertain as ever. At UC Santa Cruz, admissions director Michelle Whittingham says she wouldn’t even use waitlists if she didn’t have to. But enrollment prediction — a discipline that aims to meld the science of data analysis with the guesswork of anticipating teenage whims — can be dicey.
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Pioneering UCSC faculty member William T. Doyle dies at 91
Doyle was among the founding faculty members of UC Santa Cruz when the campus opened in 1965 and was largely responsible for the establishment of Long Marine Laboratory.
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Town-gown tension: Local governments launch petition calling on UCSC to abide by 5 conditions to add students
The Santa Cruz City-County Task Force on UC Santa Cruz Growth Plans is asking residents to sign a petition that calling for certain parameters for student expansion. Here’s how it might impact the larger campus growth debate.