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To:   Faculty and Staff

From:   Blia Yang, Director of Undergraduate Admissions

March 11, 2022

As we all have in the midst of the pandemic, the Tours & Events program in Undergraduate Admissions has had to become creative in meeting the demand from students and families wanting to learn more about our campus. We have responded with a variety of online, YouTube-based, and self-guided options over the last two years.

Recently, we have been carefully resuming our in-person tours, as you may have seen around the campus. The tours are outdoors and serve a limited number of people per group. 

As we enter our Spring Yield phase with a record number of applicants once again, we are prioritizing admitted students and their families for in-person tours. Shortly after receiving their admission notification, students will also receive a link that will allow them to sign up for tours. After yield season ends, we expect to gradually increase our in-person tour options and open them to the general public, health conditions permitting.

In addition to the in-person tours, we will host a range of virtual activities for our admitted students and families, including Banana Slug Day on April 16, an all-online experience that will offer many opportunities for students to connect with our faculty and staff.

Thank you for your flexibility and grace as we navigate the process of reopening tours and offering the best possible experience for our admitted students and families, while continuing to stay safe.

If you are in the area, feel free to stop by and visit Undergraduate Admissions Tours & Events at our new home in Hahn Student Services!

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Our group tour is generally 90 minutes and covers approximately 1.5 miles over hilly terrain and many stairs. If any guests in your group have temporary or long-term mobility issues or require other accommodations, please let us know when making your request for a reservation.

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• July 09, 2024

Research team led by Charles Walker, professor of history at UC Davis, (not pictured) and Ruth Borja Santa Cruz (center), professor of history at the University of San Marcos in Peru, digitizes documents in Peru. (Courtesy/ Charles Walker)

It was a single note that reached Angélica Mendoza de Ascarza after her son Arqu í medes was taken from her home by soldiers in Peru’s military. In faint cursive on a scrap of deeply creased brown paper, he wrote that he was being held at an army barracks and asked her to find a lawyer and money and any way possible to get him to a trial.

The day after Arqu í medes’ disappearance in 1983, officers at the “Los Cabitos” barracks insisted to his mother, better known as “Mamá Angélica,” that he wasn’t in their custody. However, his hand-written note would play a critical role in Mamá Angélica’s years-long effort to find justice. It would culminate in the 2017 conviction of former soldiers responsible for 53 forced disappearances that included Arqu í medes'. 

Between 1980 and 2000, roughly 70,000 people disappeared or were killed in Peru, according to the country’s 2003 Commission on Truth and Reconciliation report . Documents, both formal and informal, were central for both piecing together a history of this violence and successful judicial proceedings seeking justice. Today, many of those documents are in danger.

Charles Walker, Professor of History, UC Davis College of Letters and Science

Charles Walker, a professor of history in the UC Davis College of Letters and Science, was recently awarded a $100,000 grant to digitize archives from three major human rights organizations in Peru. With this funding from the UCLA Library’s Modern Endangered Archives Program , Walker will partner with co-investigator Ruth Borja Santa Cruz, a professor of history at the University of San Marcos in Peru, to preserve documents that chart a history of human rights in the country.

“These archives are really endangered,” said Walker. “If the political situation changes, these organizations might be closed and maybe even burned down.”

Digitizing human rights documentation for historical preservation

The years from 1983 to 2000 in Peru are in many ways defined by terrorist attacks against the populace on one side and severe repression by Peru's government on the other. Caught between the those two forces were tens of thousands of people from rural, mostly indigenous communities who suffered illegal detentions, forced disappearances, killings and other violations of their human rights as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the American Convention on Human Rights .

Even when this violence went officially unreported or even unacknowledged by the government, it often left a trail of documents. They could be a handwritten letter, a local investigation or even a fax sent to a state agency asking about a loved one who was taken by authorities. 

Right now, three human rights organizations in Peru — Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH) and Asociación Nacional de Familiares de Secuestrados, Detenidos y Desaparecidos del Perú (ANFASEP), as well as Equipo Peruano de Antropología Forense (EPAF) — all hold archives of documents that are critical for understanding the 20-year period of violence in Peru . Walker and his team will lead the process of photographing and digitally storing documents from those archives. 

Many of the documents are decades old. The years have taken a toll, particularly with original communications describing the violence, which were sent by fax and telex machine. 

“The paper that they used at that time was a fragile paper that is sometimes a little difficult to handle. Sometimes they fall apart simply when you touch them,” said Christian Huaylinos Camacuari, a human rights lawyer and legal coordinator for APRODEH, speaking in Spanish. “That explains why it’s necessary to have them digitized and to do it in a professional way.”

The documents at APRODEH alone fill hundreds of boxes. They include closed cases of human rights trials, including some of the most important human rights trials in Peruvian history. Many of these cases were sponsored by APRODEH in Peru with international support. 

Case file from the trial of former Peru president Alberto Fujimori. (Christian Huaylinos Camacuari/APRODEH)

“All of this documentation has been used in legal proceedings that have subsequently resulted in convictions in various cases of human rights violations, including of our own ex-president of the state of Peru Alberto Fujimori,” said Huaylinos. 

Fujimori, president of Peru from 1990 to 2000, was sentenced in 2009 to 25 years in prison for his role in extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances. In 2023, the Peru Constitutional Tribunal ordered his release . APRODEH was one of the organizations that challenged Fujimori's release with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR).

The shifting landscape of human rights and cultural heritage protection in Peru

This project builds on an earlier project, also funded by the UCLA Library Modern Endangered Archives Program, in which Walker and Ruth Borja Santa Cruz digitized 40,000 documents from the Confederación Campesina del Perú (CCP). That work was completed during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The CCP archive documents the history of Peru during the late 20th Century, including the growth of the radical left, the organization of major strikes and how the terrorist group “Shining Path” impacted poor and indigenous peoples. The team added descriptions in the metadata to make the digital archive of thousands of documents searchable. 

These documents, which were housed in a private home in Peru’s capital Lima, are now freely available online through the UCLA Digital Library.

“When the CCP collection was published, we saw the interest and value of that material being openly accessible online to communities in Peru. We learned almost immediately afterward that CCP was a target of political repression in Peru and were relieved to know that the archive had been preserved,” said Rachel Deblinger, director of the UCLA Library’s Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP). 

Document digitized as part of a UC Davis-led project in Peru with support from the UCLA Library Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP). (Courtesy/ Charles Walker)

The CCP archive is one of 112 projects across 52 countries that MEAP has supported in only its first five years. The overall goal of MEAP is to support the preservation of endangered cultural heritage and to make it freely accessible to everyone, including the communities the archive represents. Right now, the complete MEAP archive holds more than 70,000 unique documents and objects. All of them are freely available for research, teaching and non-commercial purposes. 

“It is important to us that collections are documented in a way that reflects the experiences of people represented in the archive,” said Deblinger. “Having someone like Ruth Borja Santa Cruz at the center of the project, we know the materials will be well cared for and described from the community perspective.”

The new digitization project will use the same approach to protect archives that are at risk of destruction, both due to a lack of funding to maintain them and continuing threats of violence against these organizations. APRODEH has in recent years been the target of threats, including death threats against its director Gloria Cano. All three organizations fear attacks and arson that could destroy everything.

“We believe that the archival material is fundamental and is in great danger,” said Walker. “All three archives currently confront major threats and difficulties.”

Historical preservation for future research and justice

The documents are part of a complicated legacy, particularly for people who have lost loved ones in the violence. Mamá Angélica’s efforts to find justice for her son drove her work to help establish the National Association of Relatives of the Kidnapped, Detained and Disappeared (ANFASEP). 

After the legal proceedings that brought her son’s killers to justice, APRODEH requested, by power of attorney, that the judiciary return Arqu í medes’s handwritten letter. In a 2021 ceremony, APRODEH director Gloria Cano returned the letter to his family. Mamá Angélica had passed away only days after the reading of the sentencing.

Huaylinos said that the documents that Walker, Borja Santa Cruz and their team will preserve can also be invaluable for scholars seeking to piece together a history of the violence in Peru from 1983 to 2000.

“This documentation is important for trying to identify the possible perpetrators and, most importantly, to identify the victims and facts, who many times have been denied by the Peruvian state,” said Huaylinos. “In the cases when there were convictions, I’m convinced that those stories of horror, of suffering, of pain were converted into stories of hope, that despite the years and despite everything that was suffered, justice was found.” 

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How Do You Safeguard Endangered Human Rights History in Peru?

With grant, uc davis researchers digitizing, preserving records.

• by Alex Russell, College of Letters and Science
• July 09, 2024

Research team led by Charles Walker, professor of history at UC Davis, (not pictured) and Ruth Borja Santa Cruz (center), professor of history at the University of San Marcos in Peru, digitizes documents in Peru. (Courtesy/ Charles Walker)

It was a single note that reached Angélica Mendoza de Ascarza after her son Arqu í medes was taken from her home by soldiers in Peru’s military. In faint cursive on a scrap of deeply creased brown paper, he wrote that he was being held at an army barracks and asked her to find a lawyer and money and any way possible to get him to a trial.

The day after Arqu í medes’ disappearance in 1983, officers at the “Los Cabitos” barracks insisted to his mother, better known as “Mamá Angélica,” that he wasn’t in their custody. However, his hand-written note would play a critical role in Mamá Angélica’s years-long effort to find justice. It would culminate in the 2017 conviction of former soldiers responsible for 53 forced disappearances that included Arqu í medes'. 

Between 1980 and 2000, roughly 70,000 people disappeared or were killed in Peru, according to the country’s 2003 Commission on Truth and Reconciliation report . Documents, both formal and informal, were central for both piecing together a history of this violence and successful judicial proceedings seeking justice. Today, many of those documents are in danger.

Charles Walker, Professor of History, UC Davis College of Letters and Science

Charles Walker, a professor of history in the UC Davis College of Letters and Science, was recently awarded a $100,000 grant to digitize archives from three major human rights organizations in Peru. With this funding from the UCLA Library’s Modern Endangered Archives Program , Walker will partner with co-investigator Ruth Borja Santa Cruz, a professor of history at the University of San Marcos in Peru, to preserve documents that chart a history of human rights in the country.

“These archives are really endangered,” said Walker. “If the political situation changes, these organizations might be closed and maybe even burned down.”

Digitizing human rights documentation for historical preservation

The years from 1983 to 2000 in Peru are in many ways defined by terrorist attacks against the populace on one side and severe repression by Peru's government on the other. Caught between the those two forces were tens of thousands of people from rural, mostly indigenous communities who suffered illegal detentions, forced disappearances, killings and other violations of their human rights as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the American Convention on Human Rights .

Even when this violence went officially unreported or even unacknowledged by the government, it often left a trail of documents. They could be a handwritten letter, a local investigation or even a fax sent to a state agency asking about a loved one who was taken by authorities. 

Right now, three human rights organizations in Peru — Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH) and Asociación Nacional de Familiares de Secuestrados, Detenidos y Desaparecidos del Perú (ANFASEP), as well as Equipo Peruano de Antropología Forense (EPAF) — all hold archives of documents that are critical for understanding the 20-year period of violence in Peru . Walker and his team will lead the process of photographing and digitally storing documents from those archives. 

Many of the documents are decades old. The years have taken a toll, particularly with original communications describing the violence, which were sent by fax and telex machine. 

“The paper that they used at that time was a fragile paper that is sometimes a little difficult to handle. Sometimes they fall apart simply when you touch them,” said Christian Huaylinos Camacuari, a human rights lawyer and legal coordinator for APRODEH, speaking in Spanish. “That explains why it’s necessary to have them digitized and to do it in a professional way.”

The documents at APRODEH alone fill hundreds of boxes. They include closed cases of human rights trials, including some of the most important human rights trials in Peruvian history. Many of these cases were sponsored by APRODEH in Peru with international support. 

Case file from the trial of former Peru president Alberto Fujimori. (Christian Huaylinos Camacuari/APRODEH)

“All of this documentation has been used in legal proceedings that have subsequently resulted in convictions in various cases of human rights violations, including of our own ex-president of the state of Peru Alberto Fujimori,” said Huaylinos. 

Fujimori, president of Peru from 1990 to 2000, was sentenced in 2009 to 25 years in prison for his role in extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances. In 2023, the Peru Constitutional Tribunal ordered his release . APRODEH was one of the organizations that challenged Fujimori's release with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR).

The shifting landscape of human rights and cultural heritage protection in Peru

This project builds on an earlier project, also funded by the UCLA Library Modern Endangered Archives Program, in which Walker and Ruth Borja Santa Cruz digitized 40,000 documents from the Confederación Campesina del Perú (CCP). That work was completed during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The CCP archive documents the history of Peru during the late 20th Century, including the growth of the radical left, the organization of major strikes and how the terrorist group “Shining Path” impacted poor and indigenous peoples. The team added descriptions in the metadata to make the digital archive of thousands of documents searchable. 

These documents, which were housed in a private home in Peru’s capital Lima, are now freely available online through the UCLA Digital Library.

“When the CCP collection was published, we saw the interest and value of that material being openly accessible online to communities in Peru. We learned almost immediately afterward that CCP was a target of political repression in Peru and were relieved to know that the archive had been preserved,” said Rachel Deblinger, director of the UCLA Library’s Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP). 

Document digitized as part of a UC Davis-led project in Peru with support from the UCLA Library Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP). (Courtesy/ Charles Walker)

The CCP archive is one of 112 projects across 52 countries that MEAP has supported in only its first five years. The overall goal of MEAP is to support the preservation of endangered cultural heritage and to make it freely accessible to everyone, including the communities the archive represents. Right now, the complete MEAP archive holds more than 70,000 unique documents and objects. All of them are freely available for research, teaching and non-commercial purposes. 

“It is important to us that collections are documented in a way that reflects the experiences of people represented in the archive,” said Deblinger. “Having someone like Ruth Borja Santa Cruz at the center of the project, we know the materials will be well cared for and described from the community perspective.”

The new digitization project will use the same approach to protect archives that are at risk of destruction, both due to a lack of funding to maintain them and continuing threats of violence against these organizations. APRODEH has in recent years been the target of threats, including death threats against its director Gloria Cano. All three organizations fear attacks and arson that could destroy everything.

“We believe that the archival material is fundamental and is in great danger,” said Walker. “All three archives currently confront major threats and difficulties.”

Historical preservation for future research and justice

The documents are part of a complicated legacy, particularly for people who have lost loved ones in the violence. Mamá Angélica’s efforts to find justice for her son drove her work to help establish the National Association of Relatives of the Kidnapped, Detained and Disappeared (ANFASEP). 

After the legal proceedings that brought her son’s killers to justice, APRODEH requested, by power of attorney, that the judiciary return Arqu í medes’s handwritten letter. In a 2021 ceremony, APRODEH director Gloria Cano returned the letter to his family. Mamá Angélica had passed away only days after the reading of the sentencing.

Huaylinos said that the documents that Walker, Borja Santa Cruz and their team will preserve can also be invaluable for scholars seeking to piece together a history of the violence in Peru from 1983 to 2000.

“This documentation is important for trying to identify the possible perpetrators and, most importantly, to identify the victims and facts, who many times have been denied by the Peruvian state,” said Huaylinos. “In the cases when there were convictions, I’m convinced that those stories of horror, of suffering, of pain were converted into stories of hope, that despite the years and despite everything that was suffered, justice was found.” 

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The 2024 UC Tech Annual Conference will be three days in Sacramento and Davis, jam-packed with engaging discussions about current and emerging technologies, individual and panel presentations, opportunities to connect with like-minded professionals at Birds of a Feather sessions, and a chance to set your own learning path with captivating poster presentations. UC Davis and UC Davis Health are excited to have you join us in these insightful conversations centered around collaboration for transformation!

Below is the tentative program for the three-day conference to give you an idea of what to expect during our time together. Please keep in mind that the program is not finalized, and exact times, events, and locations are subject to change as we work to craft the best possible experience for all our attendees, presenters, volunteers, ambassadors, and vendors.

Day 1: October 27 in Sacramento

• Location: UC Davis Health, Betty Irene Moore Hall
• Time: Begins at 5:00 p.m.
• Main Activity: Welcome Reception

Day 2: October 28 in Davis

• Location: UC Davis, Gateway District
• Time: 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. (optional morning activity starts at 6:30 a.m.)
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• Vendor Tables
• Welcome Event
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Poster Sessions

• Chancellor Message & Keynote
• Sessions 4-5 
• UC Tech Awards 
• Evening Reception 

Day 3: October 29 in Davis

• Time: 7:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. (optional morning activity starts at 6:30 am.)
• Check-In (All Day) 
• Breakfast 
• Vendor Tables 
• Vendor Raffle 
• Lunch 
• Poster Sessions 
• Sessions 4-5
• “Pass the Buck”
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Artificial Intelligence & the Future of IT

• Avoiding AI Chaos: How Lightweight Guardrails Enable University-Wide Innovation 
• Brief Introduction to MITRE ATLAS AI framework (Adversarial Threat Landscape for Artificial Intelligence Systems) 
• How Best to Learn From a Robot 
• Leveraging AI in Generative Assets and Environments for Play: Insights from the English Department's Digital Media Lab 
• Speeding Through Red Tape: A Case Study of Fast-Tracking Gen AI at UC Irvine 
• UCLA Modern Data Platform - Enabling Data-Driven Culture 
• Unlocking the Potential of Large Language Models: Theory to Practice 
• Unraveling Potentials and Pitfalls of AI, One Experiment at a Time
• ZotGPT Chat: Generative AI Technical Deep Dive 

Communications & User Experience (UX)

• Addressing Priority Web Problems and How to Fix Them 
• Beyond Aesthetics: Process Transformation with UX Design 
• Cultivating Transparent Collaborations in Design in Agile Environments 
• Designing AI Technical Support Tools for Classrooms 
• Elevating Community Impact with User-Centered Redesign of a University-Based Research Data Platform 
• IT Communications Planning 101 
• Managing Responsive Images in Drupal ...and Other Platforms 
• ServiceNow Catalog Builder 
• The Journey to Berkeley Web Builder: UX/UI and Accessibility Case Study 

Community, Collaboration & Culture

• A Decade of Evolution: Crafting an Inclusive Accessibility Policy 
• A Sampling of the IT Leadership Program
• Aggie Experts–An Open-Source Expertise Discovery Platform 
• AntSoft: Building a Low-Cost, Low-Code Software Asset Management as a Service (SAMaaS) Solution Using the Microsoft Power Platform 
• Designing the Future of User Experience in The Heart of California 
• DevOps at Work: How Collaboration and Containers Supercharged Our Integration Platform 
• Diversity on Display in Product Development 
• Driving AI Innovation: UCSF's Collaborative Model 
• Empowering Our Community: A Collaborative Approach to Transforming Identity and Access Management 
• Fostering Community, Collaboration & Culture: A Journey with Super Users at UCLA Health 
• From Solitary to Solidarity: Building an Agile and Inclusive Education IT Team in a Remote Era 
• Gemba Walking in the Clouds: A Collaborative Approach to Software Automation Excellence
• Journey to Develop an IT Accessibility Program for UC Merced and UC Santa Cruz 
• Let's Taco 'Bout IT! 
• Navigating the Depths, Scaling the Heights: UCLA's ERP Rim to Rim Adventure
• The IT Masterclass: Our Secrets to Cultivating Top-Tier Student Talent 
• Unlocking Potential: Empowering Teams Through Project Management
• What’s an OSPO? Open-Source Program Offices and the University of California  
• Womxn Building Bridges: Collaborative Strategies for Navigating UC Career Tracks 

Health Sciences

• Accelerating Referrals - From Web Referral Form into Epic Workflow 
• AI for Inclusion: Inside the Year-Long UCSF Project to Address Clinical Trials Jargon 
• Lab Graff Test Bot (Lab GBT) 
• Networked Medical Devices – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Infrastructure, Research Computing & Data Science

• Custom Web Application DevOps with Docker and Amazon Web Services Elastic Container Service 
• Flow, Flex, and Ship: The Daily Practice of Agile Engineering 
• It Takes a Village - Managing a Website with 80+ Domains 
• Large Scale Deidentification of DICOM Medical Imaging Data and Clinical Note Text Using UCSF Shared HPC Environment for the
• OpenSearch For the Productivity Win; Fostering Adoption Across Teams 
• RCS3: Cost-Effective backup of Petabytes of Research Data on Lab- using AWS Deep Archive and Rclone 
• Running Kubernetes on Baremetal for Edge Compute Strategies 
• Supercharge Data Integration Using a Configuration-Based Approach 
• UCI’s “Glog”: A Centralized Log Storage and Analysis System, Built with Open-Source Components
• UCSF Information Commons Computational Health Science Research Platform 
• Using Machine-Actionable DMSPs to Connect Research Workflows and Infrastructure 
• Wrestling with the Bear. The Struggle to Develop Cohesive Data Storage and Compute Resources at Universities of California

Security Compliance & Privacy

• Adopting Monthly Operational Review Meetings as a Learning Exercise 
• Controls in Action: The MSSEI Assessment Service 
• Migration of GoAnywhere Service Out of UC Berkeley Datacenter to UCOP AWS. 
• Running a Successful Tabletop Exercise 
• Safeguarding the Center: Centralized Security in a Decentralizing World 
• UC Berkeley's IS-3 Risk Assessment Journey
• Windows Deployments, the Next Generation: MEM 

Teaching, Learning & Student Success

• Developing and Refining IT Student Employee Programs 
• Easy, Medium, Hard: Change Management Through the Lens of Classroom Tech Equipment Implementation 
• From Collaboration to Transformation: Nurturing a Multi-Campus Community of Practice 
• GenAI and Convergences of (Teaching) Writing and Coding 
• Leveraging the Canvas API at UC Santa Cruz 
• Teaching Drone Photogrammetry with Virtual Machines for a Multi-Campus Short Course 
• The Value of Student Response Systems for Student Engagement: Results from a Poll Everywhere Pilot at UCSC

Birds of a Feather Sessions

Participants with common interests gather and discuss issues which may not fit within other presentation formats, or for which longer discussions are preferable . 

• Adapting to Growth: Supporting Teaching in Large Courses
• Communities of Practice: AV Professionals
• Forecasting the Future of Computer Classrooms and Labs
• Open Source Birds of a Feather
• REDCap Services Across the UC Community
• SiteImprove Meetup     
• Student Information Systems
• UC Tech Black Excellence: Impact and Influence
• UC Womxn in Technology Munch and Mingle
• UC Womxn in Technology Social Summit
• Workgroup Apps and Central IT Support

A poster session demonstrates the use of an emerging technology or innovative practice, typically in the early stages of development. Presenters briefly discuss the poster topic with attendees .

• APeX Enabled Research
• Classroom of the Future
• Digital Davis GEN AI Sandbox
• Empowering Students, Enriching IT
• Enhancing Document Tagging Efficiency with Generative AI: A Case Study in Medical Education Knowledge Management
• From Digital Jungles to Murmurations: Capability Mapping for Making Sense of Our Digital Jungles!
• Gamifying Student Success Analytics
• GenAI to Objectively Assess Surgical Competency
• Improving Jupyter Notebook Accessibility at UC Berkeley: A Collaborative Approach
• Online & Hybrid Course Design Institute Focused on Inclusive Teaching and Learning
• Open Source Customer Relationship Management System (CRM) for Pre-Med and Pre-Health Outreach and Targeted Messaging: A Case Study of the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine Office of Outreach and Pathway Programs
• Post-Living Donor Program Transition; A Collaborative Experience
• SDOH as a Vital Sign
• Snackable Sessions: Palatable Webinars for the AI Skeptics and Slow Adopters Within Us All
• Synergizing Learning: Collaborative Innovations for Transformative Education
• The AI Assist: How Public Health Researchers Leveraged AI to Launch California’s New COVID-19 Data Catalog
• Transitioning to Integrated Video Visits: Successes and Challenges

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