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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 Davis |

Veterinary food safety lab gets boost for toxicology testing

Lab receives $1.9M, five-year grant from the federal Food Emergency Response Network.
UC Newsroom |

3 UC professors win national medals for science and technology

White House awards country's highest honors to Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara researchers.
, Buster Halcomb with granddaughter Serenity
UC Davis |

It takes a UC village: Smoking cessation push goes high tech

University-wide program links health records with 1-800-NOBUTTS helpline.
A gift of cash may be just the right thing.
The Conversation |

Gift-giving taboos that aren’t as bad as you think

Behavioral science research shows that gifts that may seem  inappropriate to givers might actually be better appreciated by recipients than they might think.
The numbers of wild pollinators like this yellow-faced bumblebee have declined in areas where the need for crop pollination is high.
UC Davis |

Wild bees decline where crop pollination most needed, study finds

New study suggests that wild bee populations likely declined in areas comprising 23 percent of the nation between 2008 and 2013, a decline associated with conversion of natural wild bee habitat into intensive agriculture.
Popular android apps could be compromising users’ security, UCR researchers have shown.
UC Riverside |

When apps talk behind your back

UC Riverside study shows popular apps interact with risky websites.
Big ideas in health and science for 2016
UC San Francisco |

Big ideas in health and science for 2016

UC San Francisco experts predict areas that will see major advances, and where basic science will be translating into real treatments.
UCSB scientists collaborate with researchers, wildlife agencies, San Francisco, Oakland zoos to save endangered California species of frog
UC Santa Barbara |

Rescue and recovery effort for endangered frog

UC Santa Barbara scientists collaborate with wildlife agencies, and San Francisco and Oakland zoos to save native California species.
CRISPR named Science's Breakthrough of 2015
UC Berkeley |

Science magazine names CRISPR ‘Breakthrough of the Year’

Genome-editing technology invented at UC Berkeley is year’s top innovation.
UC Newsroom |

UC's top 10 stories of 2015

From expanding enrollment to tackling climate change, 2015 was a big year for the University of California.
Winning team, Ag for Hire, brainstorms its app at the Apps for Ag Hackathon with the UC Davis World Food Center.
UC Davis |

Hackers compete for best ag app

Ag for Hire team wins the hackathon, which, in partnership with the World Food Center at UC Davis, was one of a series of events at the Food, Ag and Health Solution Summit.
UC campuses among top 'best values' in 2016 Kiplinger rankings
UC Newsroom |

UC campuses among top 'best values' in 2016 Kiplinger rankings

Eight ranked in top 100 for public universities.