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Alumnus's game aims to build empathy by allowing players to take the role of a poor black American, encountering aggressions from humiliating to lethal

By Leigh Alexander, March 2016
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Building a ladder to a cure

A cancer diagnosis used to be a death sentence for children. Now UC Santa Cruz researchers are opening a new front in the battle against the disease.

By Dan White, March 2016
Pat Zavella

Crossing borders

At UC Santa Cruz, the Latin American and Latino Studies Department is breaking boundaries and creating thought leaders

By Peggy Townsend, March 2016
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Slugs on tap

UC Santa Cruz alumni make their mark in the California brewing scene

March 2016