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UC Newsroom |

Coming of age in a warming world: How UC students are turning climate anxiety into action

How do UC students think about their futures, knowing that the climate they were born into will probably look a whole lot different than the one they grow old in?

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A UC degree launched Miguel Tamayo’s life as an aerospace engineer. Here’s how he paid for college.

Hear how one student paid for a UC education. 

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UC Newsroom |

Grad students look beyond the ivy walls of academia

With California increasingly in need of their brainpower, UC is helping Ph.D. students explore non-academic careers.
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UC Davis |

Fish social lives may be key to saving coral reefs

Why dining together may make fish and coral reefs more vulnerable to overfishing.
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UC Newsroom |

UC leads nation in producing Ph.D.s in the arts and humanities

Six campuses are among the top 50 in the country granting doctorates in these fields.
UC Riverside faculty gender study
UC Riverside |

When good deeds go unpublished

Study finds women faculty take on more internal service work than male colleagues, impacting their ability to get ahead.
UC Merced photosynthesis
UC Merced |

Research shows global photosynthesis on the rise

Researchers document a ‘fundamental shift’ in Earth’s plants over the past two centuries.
Aydogan Ozcan UCLA
UC Newsroom |

12 UC faculty members awarded 2017 Guggenheim Fellowships

New fellows hail from four campuses and encompass arts, engineering, history, science and more.
UC Irvine 50 million gallons
UC Irvine |

UC Irvine to save 50 million gallons in drinkable water annually

Once completed, the project will mark a 42 percent decrease in consumption in a decade.
UC San Diego are the rich selfish?
UC San Diego via The Conversation |

Are the rich more selfish than the rest of us?

Sure, the wealthy donate less often to charity, but are their moral values that different? New research has an answer.
UC Berkeley deep sleep aging
UC Berkeley |

Deep sleep may act as a fountain of youth

The real thing (not pill-induced sedation) can ward off mental and physical ailments.
Solar Helix Luke Mostert UCLA
UCLA |

Student entrepreneur brings light to South African school children

New business donates 300 lanterns to electricity-deprived sections of the country.
Rebecca Smith-Bindman, UC San Francisco
UC San Francisco |

Safety in numbers: Project reduces radiation doses

UC project finds roadmap to improve patient safety in radiation exposure.
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UCLA |

UCLA develops artificial thymus that produces cancer-fighting cells

This could be an important step for treating many different types of cancer.