Month: July 2019
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44 Gilliam Fellowships Awarded to Support Diversity and Inclusion in Science
HHMI A good scientific mentor can help students navigate different career paths and plug them into new networks. A mentor can be a sounding board and an advocate – and they can also make the experience of being a scientist more fun. That’s a goal of biologist Samara Reck-Peterson, one of 44 advisers the Howard Hughes…
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Ban on Hunting With Lead Ammo to Go Into Effect in California
June 27, 2019 | Center for Biological Diversity SACRAMENTO, Calif.— On Monday California will become the first state to ban all lead ammunition for hunting — the culmination of years of efforts to phase out toxic lead ammunition in the environment. The statewide ban will significantly decrease the risk that leftover fragments of spent lead…
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Holger Schmidt receives IEEE Photonics Society Engineering Achievement Award
UCSC.edu Holger Schmidt, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has been chosen to receive the Engineering Achievement Award of the IEEE Photonics Society. The award recognizes Schmidt and his long-time collaborator, Aaron Hawkins at Brigham Young University, for “the invention and development of optofluidic waveguides and their applications, in particular commercialization…