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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 Santa Cruz |

Engineers work with Samsung on promising new memory technology

Innovations in 'spintronics' may lead to the emergence of a universal memory technology to replace all others.
UC Davis butterfly contest
UC Davis |

Butterfly for science, beer for bragging

Professor Art Shapiro's infamous contest — which he's only lost four times — enters its 46th year.
UCSF sneakers New Year's resolutions
UCSF |

Scientific reasons for keeping your New Year’s resolutions

Added motivation from leading scientists to help you stick to your goals.
UC Merced fake news
UC Merced via The Conversation |

The challenge facing libraries in an era of fake news

In today's unpredictable information environment, how might academic librarians rethink their role?
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UC Berkeley |

Global warming hiatus disproved — again

Study confirms steady warming of oceans for past 45 years.
Wine writer Jancis Robinson has donated her personal papers to the UC Davis Library.
UC Davis |

Wine writer Jancis Robinson donates personal papers to UC Davis

Her papers join UC Davis Library's collections of other prominent wine writers, top wine researchers and scientists, and wine industry leaders.
Moana UCLA
UCLA |

Mathematicians bring ocean to life for Disney’s ‘Moana’

Professor and alum make movie magic.
2017 tuition proposal
UC Newsroom |

Regents to consider modest tuition increase for improved student support

Revenue to be used for financial aid, student services and improving the student-faculty ratio.
Preschoolers from the Orfalea Family Children’s Center at UCSB enter the campus Greenhouse & Garden Project for a lesson in gardening.
UC Santa Barbara |

'Inside, outside and beyond'

UC Santa Barbara collaboration seeds sustainability in preschoolers.
Two Berkeley Lab projects to “see” into the soil.
Berkeley Lab |

Berkeley Lab awarded $4.6M for transformational agriculture technologies

Two projects will provide a window to the underground, yielding information on roots and soil.
UC Merced economic impact
UC Merced |

Economic impact of UC Merced rises to $2.6B

Campus contributions to the state include more than $1.4B to the San Joaquin Valley, with more to come.
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UC Newsroom |

The most viral UC research of 2016

UC research comprised 14 of the 100 journal articles that got the most media attention in 2016. Take a look at what got the world talking.