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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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UC Newsroom |

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 Berkeley |

Scientists begin monitoring tremors on San Andreas Fault

Borehole seismometers will monitor faint tremors beneath the San Andreas Fault — part of UC Berkeley’s TremorScope project to determine the link between tremors and earthquakes.
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UC Irvine |

FDA greenlights clinical trial of treatment for blinding disease

Novel retinitis pigmentosa therapy has been created by stem cell researchers.
UC Newsroom |

UC president, Riverside chancellor meet with community college leaders

President Napolitano's transfer initiative seeks to enhance UC's partnership with the California Community College system.
Cellscope Loa
UC Berkeley |

Smartphone microscope automates detection of parasites in blood

CellScope technology could help revive efforts to wipe out diseases in Africa by providing critical information to health providers in the field.
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UC Merced |

Researchers reverse bacterial resistance to antibiotics

Biology and math join forces to force superbugs to evolve backward, allowing existing drugs to regain their effectiveness.
Ashley Fong, UC Grad Slam winner
UC Newsroom |

Researchers wow audience at first UC Grad Slam

At systemwide research communications contest, graduate students captivate audiences while sticking to the mantra: Keep it simple.
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UC Irvine via The Conversation |

Teens without smartphones encounter a new digital divide

Low-income teens are unable to participate in the social media conversations of their wealthier peers — pointing to deeper forms of digital inequity.
Bill Drummond and San Quentin inmates
California Magazine |

The prof and the cons

How Bill Drummond lost his faith in journalism — and reclaimed it behind bars, with inmates at San Quentin.
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UC Santa Cruz |

Astronomers set a new distance record for galaxies

Astronomers discover a bright galaxy more than 13 billion light years from Earth — the most distant known, dating back to when the universe was just 5 percent of its current age.
Sean Riley and P-32 as a cub
UCLA |

Behind the scenes with a Los Angeles mountain lion expert

Seth Riley, who teaches at UCLA and works for the National Park Service, has tracked 40 mountain lions living in the Santa Monica Mountains.
A thick tangle of the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans (purple) that causes white-nose syndrome in bats is shown here growing on mouse body hair.
UC San Francisco |

Breakthrough in bat-killing fungus could aid crops

UCSF-Brown discovery could help combat fungus that threatens North American bats and poses threat to the agricultural industry.
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UC Merced |

A more secure cloud for mobile users

Encryption system allows smartphone and tablet users to store data in one or multiple clouds without using a lot of a mobile device’s resources.