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The Disease Plaguing Our Border: Separation Anxiety

BY GAYATHRI KALLA | SQ ONLINE WRITER | SQ ONLINE (2018-19)   To be uprooted from your home and forced... Read More
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Conservation and Ecotourism

BY MADISON RAE | SQ ONLINE WRITER | SQ ONLINE (2016-17) ____________________________________________________________________________ With summer and winter break behind us and... Read More
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To Be One With the Microbiome

By Ashley Medina | Online Reporter | SQ Online (2020-2021) How much of you is you? Look down at your... Read More
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The Imagination of Body Augmentation

Picture Teen Titan’s Cyborg’s multipurpose cybernetic arm cannon, Doctor Otto Octavius’ mechanical limbs, and the Winter Soldier’s vibranium arm. It... Read More
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Vaccination in the 21st Century

Vaccines are a complex innovation in disease prevention. Their widespread administration, both in the past and in contemporary society, has... Read More
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The Making of a Researcher: The Merits of Mentorship

Principal Investigator. Professor. Soccer mom. Dr. Sonya Neal is a principal investigator, or PI for short, at UC San Diego... Read More
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Sustainability in Action

BY MADISON RAE | SQ ONLINE WRITER | SQ ONLINE (2015-16) When it comes to combatting climate change, UC San... Read More
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Malignant Snowflakes

BY BAR YOSEF| SQ ONLINE WRITER | SQ ONLINE (2016-17) ____________________________________________________________________________ Generation snowflake: noun informal, derogatory “the generation of people... Read More
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How To Be A Student Lab Rat

At first, I was underwhelmed; it just looked like eight horizontal lines on different sections of the screen. But when the operator told me to focus on one line and move my eyes left and right, the line dramatically shifted up and down. Then my focus shifted to another line that oscillated every time I blinked, and finally, when I ground my teeth, I saw every line on the screen scatter into clouds of multicolored dots all blending together. Read More
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