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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2022
UCD: Half of all women will get false-positive mammogram By Caleb Hampton Enterprise staff writer
Along the way, she lands a job as a ranger with the National Park Service at the Grand Canyon, and finds that working the front counter answering questions at a busy visitor center wasn’t quite the kind of job she’d imagined. At yet another level, “Unnatural Selection” is a coming-of-age story (as many memoirs are). When the book begins, Ross is a fresh graduate of UC Santa Cruz, who lands her first real job as a naturalist teaching at a redwood camp in the coastal mountains. By the time the book wraps up, the more mature Ross has become a writing teacher at a large university (and we aren’t giving anything away to acknowledge that she’s been teaching writing at UC Davis for years). Along the way, she learns a lot about her
A new study led by UC Davis Health has found that about half of all women will experience at least one false positive mammogram over a decade of annual screening with digital breast tomosynthesis (3D mammography). The study, which assessed the cumulative risk of receiving a false positive on a mammogram over a 10-year period, was published Friday in the medical research journal JAMA Network Open. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death for women in the U.S. Regular mammography screenings help with early detection of the cancer, which lowers the risk of advanced breast cancer and death from the disease. “A false positive result is a positive screening mammography assessment that leads to more diagnostic workup but no diagnosis of breast cancer,” UC Davis Health said in a press release that discussed the study’s findings. The UCD study, which analyzed data on 3 million screening mammograms for more than 900,000 women aged 40-79, looked at results from the standard two-dimensional
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Andrea Ross’ memoir is the story of a “mountain girl” who likes to spend time in redwood forests, climbing mountain peaks and hiking through the Grand Canyon, as well as a chronicle of the search for her origins.
Finding herself on the page Author details search for origins in memoir By Jeff Hudson Enterprise correspondent Longtime Davis resident Andrea Ross has published a memoir titled, “Unnatural Selection.” Ross sums up her new book this way: “Living through the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 prompted me to ask, “What will this world be like now that the Earth has cracked open? ... it launched me on a journey of searching for my biological family, hoping to uncover my identity.” This 10-year search unfolded while Ross — who came to Yolo County in 1997 to earn a master’s degree in creative writing at UC Davis — was working as a wilderness guide throughout the American West.
Subtitled, “A Memoir of Adoption and Wilderness,” the book is, at a primary level, the story of a young woman — adopted at a very early age — who decides as a young college graduate to seek out her origins ... Who were her birth parents? Where did their lives take them? Would they be willing to meet with her, after many years of no contact, and get to know her as an adult? The story of her long (and sometimes frustrating) search is one of the book’s central elements. This memoir is also the story of a young woman who deeply loves wild places and spectacular Western landscapes, a “mountain girl” who likes to spend time in redwood forests, climbing mountain peaks and hiking through the Grand Canyon. Her interest in wild places takes her to Alaska, the Rocky Mountains and various parts of California (as well as a city or two).
Barn-raising for climate change
Citrus Circuits wins at regional robotics competition By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer
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The agricultural communities that make up the Central Valley of California are not known for climate activism, but this is changing. From crop diversification to habitat creation, water conservation to renewable energy generation, climate-friendly agricultural techniques are gaining traction across the region. To acknowledge this shift, a group of farmers are starting a climate art trail in the valley using agricultural infrastructure as their canvas. The first site for the art trail is a red barn on an organic almond orchard along County Road 102, halfway between Woodland and Davis. On Saturday, local residents gathered for a 21st century “barn raising” to paint the barn together. VOL. 124 NO. 38
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The Davis high school robotics team Citrus Circuits won the Sacramento Regional FIRST competition held at UC Davis over the weekend. The team took first place along with alliance partners Cheezy Poofs from Bellarmine Prep in San Jose and Digital Minds, composed of students from Woodland and Pioneer high schools. Citrus Circuits also received the most prestigious award of the competition, the Chairman’s Award, which is presented to the team that best
embodies the goals and purpose of FIRST and represents a model for other teams to emulate. Citrus Circuits was honored for its global efforts to assist other robotics teams and for delivering its message to expand girls’ opportunities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. In April, the Davis team will head to the FIRST world championships in Houston after having already qualified with a win at the Hueneme Port Regional competition earlier this month. Citrus Circuits has about
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