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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 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.
Roger Beachy, UC Davis
UC Davis |

UC Davis World Food Center recruits permanent director

Roger Beachy’s term as founding director comes to an end Jan. 31, after which he will stay on as a senior fellow and continue his work on partnerships in China.
UC Santa Barbara's John Bowers (left) is among 12 UC innovators elected to the National Academy of Inventors.
UC Newsroom |

13 UC innovators elected to the National Academy of Inventors

The newest members of the NAI come from across the UC system, with fellows from UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UCLA, UC San Diego, UC San Francisco and UC Santa Barbara among the 2015 honorees.
Cool Campus Challenge
UC Newsroom |

Cool Campus Challenge crowns a winner

UC Irvine emerged victorious after a tight race to the finish in the first Cool Campus Challenge.
Sea lions exposed to algal toxin show impaired spatial memory
UC Santa Cruz |

Sea lions exposed to algal toxin show impaired spatial memory

Permanent damage caused by domoic acid may affect their ability to survive in the wild, UC Santa Cruz-led study suggests.
Sarah Woodruff is a UC Santa Cruz student and the intern coordinator for effot. Each week, students help every week at the garden to talk about food justice and teach the children about nutrition and growing fruits and vegetables.
UC Santa Cruz |

Cultivating a garden -- and food security -- in Watsonville

UC Santa Cruz students gain valuable experience in campus-community partnership.
Scientists Devise an Algorithm That Detects Sarcasm Better Than Humans Can
California Magazine |

Scientists devise algorithm that detects sarcasm better than humans

Computers show an accuracy rate of 75 percent — notably better than the humans, according to research co-led by UC Berkeley. 
UC Newsroom |

Online learning, from Biochemistry to Basque

Growing catalog expands access to classes, from niche subjects to core curriculum.
UC Riverside physicist Miguel Aragón-Calvo uses 3D-printing technology to understand how the universe has evolved.
UC Riverside |

The universe in your hand

UC Riverside physicist uses 3D-printing technology to understand how the cosmos has evolved.
Walnuts, a top California export crop, grow in orchards like this.
UC Davis |

UC Davis cracks the walnut genome

The information should accelerate the rate of breeding and variety improvement in walnuts and help breeders select for desired traits such as insect and disease resistance, and drought tolerance.
Eric Castle is one of several UCSF dental and medical experts behind the Bluetooth-enabled SmartByte retainer, which is designed to improve patient usage.
UC San Francisco |

'Smart' retainer keeps patients (and teeth) in line

Innovative research is underway at UCSF to produce a Bluetooth smart retainer for orthodontics patients, with a goal of increasing the amount of time a patient wears the device to ensure the best possible treatment outcome.
Neurosurgeon Eddie Chang operates on a patient with epilepsy. Chang’s team is mapping the regions of the brain that trigger seizures while also studying the circuits that mediate mood.
UC San Francisco |

Illuminating depression’s circuitry

UC San Francisco neurosurgeon Edward Chang is studying whether flawed brain circuitry causes mood disorders and how to restore neural processing.