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Athlete: Allison Stokke
School: University of California, Berkeley
Team: CAL Bears
Sport: Track & Field - Pole Vault
Competition: 81st Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays
Opponent:Various
Result: 6. Place
Location: Mike A. Myers Stadium - Austin, Texas, USA
Date:04-Apr-2008
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Athlete: Victoria Rische
School: University of California
Team: Cal Bears
Sport: Track & Field - Pole Vault
Competition: 2015 Payton Jordan Invitational
Opponent:Various
Result: 2. Place
Location: Stanford, California, USA
Date:02-May-2015
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Athlete: Allison Stokke
School: University of California, Berkeley
Team: CAL Bears
Sport: Track & Field - Pole Vault
Competition: 81st Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays
Opponent:Various
Result: 6. Place
Location: Mike A. Myers Stadium - Austin, Texas, USA
Date:04-Apr-2008
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Credit:George McCalman
Ava DuVernay is a force in Hollywood, having made a name for herself not only as a director, producer and screenwriter, but as a champion of change. Now, more than ever, media representations that we see daily in print, on television, and in films are being called into question. But, for the past decade, Ava DuVernay’s mission has been to push for more inclusivity on sets and on screen. “Diversity is not just a box to check. It’s a reality that should be deeply felt and held and valued by all of us,” DuVernay said in an interview with Fast Company.
How did DuVernay become a Hollywood game changer?
Her story isn’t a straight line — it’s a series of pivots based on strong determination and the willingness to take chances to forge her own path. Born in Long Beach, California, DuVernay was raised in a matriarchal environment with lots of women who always encouraged her to follow her heart. She grew up near the Compton neighborhood of Los Angeles and was the first African American student body president at her high school. Film wasn’t her dream from the get-go. As an undergrad at UCLA, she pursued a major in African American studies, then shifted into the world of public relations after spending time as a journalist.
Ava DuVernay gave the commencement speech at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 2017. Photo credit: UCLA
At 27, she started her own public relations firm, The DuVernay Agency. As a film publicist, she was able to get close to different filmmakers, seeing how movies were made firsthand. This proximity to the world of film enamored her. While on a film set in East Los Angeles for the 2004 crime thriller, “Collateral,” DuVernay had an aha! moment when she realized that she wanted to be the one telling the stories, the one making the movies. “Javier Bardem was on set, and something about the scene with Javier and Jamie, this brown man and this black man: It was this gritty place in East L.A. at night, with a digital camera, and I just loved it,” she shared with Rolling Stone. “I started writing a script that weekend.“
In 2011, she self-financed “I Will Follow,” her first feature film she wrote and directed, after a few years of learning the film trade while working on shorts and documentaries. Just three years later, she directed the acclaimed “Selma,” a film about Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march. Following the release of “Selma,”DuVernay was the first African American female director to be nominated for an Academy Award for best picture. With the upcoming release of “A Wrinkle in Time,” boasting a budget exceeding $100 million, DuVernay is now the first African American woman to direct a live-action film with a budget of that size.
Ava DuVernay on her journey to become the first black woman to direct an Oscar nominated film. Credit: TIME
Beyond her notable accomplishments and series of “firsts,” she’s hoping to create a larger shift in Hollywood, one with varied voices and stories in cinema. Just three years ago, she expanded her film distribution company to become ARRAY, where female filmmakers and people of color are at the forefront. “It comes down to who gets to tell the story? If the dominant images that we have seen throughout our lifetime, our mother’s lifetime, our grandmother’s lifetime, have been dominated by one kind of person, and we take that, we internalize it, we drink it in as true, as fact. It’s tragic,” DuVernay wrote in Timemagazine. “It goes beyond the film industry. These are the images of ourselves we consume. It affects the way we see ourselves and the way other people see us.”
The world of film in the United States has been built and defined by the predominately white patriarchy. But with her courageous streak and fearless creativity, DuVernay is opening doors for women, people of color and those who have been underrepresented in the film industry for so long. By advocating for a diverse set of at least 50 percent people of color and women, DuVernay has put her own politics in action: “Inclusion is really half — half of the cast, half of the directors, half of the writers are women or girls, half of the room, more than half of the room is of color,” she shared with Ellemagazine. “I think we get really satisfied with less.” And she’s just getting started. For “A Wrinkle in Time,” DuVernay warned the each of the department heads on her crew not to submit the same list of hires unless they could prove they had considered others. In making inclusion a key nonnegotiable in her creative process, DuVernay is changing the narrative for how stories are told and who gets to tell them.
How Glow-in-the-Dark Jellyfish Inspired a Scientific Revolution
What makes a jellyfish glow? For scientists, asking that simple question led to a powerful new tool that’s completely transformed medicine (and won the Nobel!)
Basic research often leads to innovations that have had a significant impact on humanity. Take any invention or modern innovation and in its history you’ll find decades — or even centuries — of odd and obscure research that led to its creation.
But federal funding for these kinds of studies is at risk. Now, more than ever, we need your voice to help support robust and sustained federal research funding.
Join with UC and call on Congress to invest in education, research and healthcare.
Is it really possible to live a zero-waste life?
Lauren Singer lives a nearly trash-free life, but she didn’t go zero waste overnight. Her story, and some easy tips to get started on reducing your own waste.
A growing number of waste experts think that shooting for zero waste is realistic, not just for individuals, but for large organizations, even cities. And there’s good reason to try: waste is a major contributor to global warming, both in the production of goods that end up in the trash, and the emission of greenhouse gases from the trash itself.
Conservation International CEO and UCLA Visiting Researcher M. Sanjayan talks with Lauren Singer about how she went from an average trash-producing person, to someone who can now fit five years of garbage in a small jar. Singer provides simple tips to help you start down the road of reducing your waste, even if you never hit zero.
And the University of California is committed to going zero waste by 2020. Across the UC system, we’ve already diverted 69 percent of our solid waste from landfills.
To learn more about UC’s zero waste initiative and how you can help, visit zerowaste2020.universityofcalifornia.edu.
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Wurster Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1966
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University of California researcher Bruce German has a lot to say on the subject of milk - specifically, human breast milk. While all mammals produce milk, the makeup of the substance differs from species to species, as one might expect, to cater to that species’ needs. But in researching the composition of human milk, German found a surprise.
From the New Yorker:
Every mammal mother produces complex sugars called oligosaccharides, but human mothers, for some reason, churn out an exceptional variety: so far, scientists have identified more than two hundred human milk oligosaccharides, or H.M.O.s. They are the third-most plentiful ingredient in human milk, after lactose and fats, and their structure ought to make them a rich source of energy for growing babies—but babies cannot digest them. When German first learned this, he was gobsmacked. Why would a mother expend so much energy manufacturing these complicated chemicals if they were apparently useless to her child?
The answer, researchers found, is that these H.M.O.s travel into the large intestine, where they are fed upon by a microbe called Bifidobacterium longum infantis, which will cause them to grow faster and more efficiently than any other gut bacteria. This process is motivated by evolution, and is beneficial to both the bacteria and the child.
As [B. infantis] digests H.M.O.s, it releases short-chain fatty acids, which feed an infant’s gut cells. Through direct contact, B. infantis also encourages gut cells to make adhesive proteins that seal the gaps between them, keeping microbes out of the bloodstream, and anti-inflammatory molecules that calibrate the immune system. These changes only happen when B. infantis feeds on H.M.O.s; if it gets lactose instead, it survives but doesn’t engage in any repartee with the baby’s cells. In other words, the microbe’s full beneficial potential is unlocked only when it feeds on breast milk.
There are a number of other ideas as to why such a vast and diverse number of H.M.O.s exist in humans over other mammals. Some scientists suggest that feeding B. infantis helps to stimulate brain growth; others note that it serves as a defense against pathogens. At a pediatric hospital in California, these microbes might be a solution to help nourish premature infants.
To learn more about H.M.O.s and Bifidobacteria, visit the full New Yorker article here.
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Estrogens alleviate hyperactivity in ‘autistic’ zebrafish
The female sex hormone estrogen reduces sleep disruption in zebrafish genetically designed to help understand autism spectrum disorder (ASD) scientists have discovered.
Researchers from the University College London In collaboration with scientists at Yale University and University of California, San Francisco, were investigating the function of genes linked to autism and seizures in humans by using zebrafish as a model system. They unexpectedly discovered that estrogens calm hyperactive fish during the night, which will help scientists to understand the brain pathways affected in ASD.
The finding is intriguing given ASD is four times more common in men than women. All humans produce estrogen, but levels are significantly higher in women than men.
These images show zebrafish brains, with axon tracts, neurons and interneurons tagged in different colours.
This research helps scientists to understand the function of an autism risk gene in the developing brain, which is important for understanding the biology of autism.
Images: Kate Turner, UCL
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