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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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Lawrence Berkeley Lab |

Startup promises safe lithium batteries

Venture capital backs company — co-founded by a Berkeley Lab scientist —developing a battery using a nonflammable electrolyte.
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UC Berkeley |

One-two punch could make western U.S. carbon-negative

Combining biomass electricity production with carbon capture could enable power generators to store more carbon than they emit.
UC Davis |

Tobacco-smoking parents increase diabetes risk for babies

Children exposed to tobacco smoke from their parents while in the womb are up to two to three times more likely to develop the disease.
UC Merced |

Gift establishes UC Merced Presidential Chair in the Humanities

Anonymous $500,000 donation, matched by UC president’s new fund, will establish $1 million endowment to provide leadership and vision for UC Merced research.
UCLA alumni Rabbi Philip Posner, Robert Farrell, Helen Singleton and Robert Singleton
UCLA |

A salute to UCLA Freedom Riders and their history-making journey

Sixteen civil rights activists — all UCLA alumni — challenged segregation in the South in 1961 as Freedom Riders.
UC San Francisco |

Why do some targeted cancer drugs lose effectiveness?

Protein may be to blame; study suggests combination therapies could overcome drug resistance.
Roger Bales
UC Newsroom |

UC awards $23 million to multicampus research collaborations

Grants will go to a diverse array of projects, from developing an implantable device that could correct memory impairment to an effort to help California better manage its water resources.
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UC Newsroom |

UC plans to require vaccinations for incoming students

Incoming students will be screened for TB and vaccinated for measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, meningococcus, tetanus and whooping cough, under a plan set to take effect in 2017.
Francisco Valero
UC San Diego |

First satellite to view Earth from deep space set for launch

Seventeen-year quest to take non-stop look at sunlit side of Earth finally comes to fruition for Scripps scientist.
Jennifer Doudna and Lorenz Mayr
UC Berkeley |

Enthusiasm greets launch of new genomics initiative

UC Berkeley and UCSF scientists joined colleagues from the biopharmaceutical industry to celebrate the launch of the Innovative Genomics Initiative.
UC Newsroom |

Princeton Review rates eight UC campuses among nation’s top 'Colleges that Pay You Back'

Rankings celebrate institutions that are working to be affordable to students with need.
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UCLA |

Girls of color face harsher school discipline than white peers

Girls of color are disproportionately impacted by school discipline policies and excluded from current efforts to address the school-to-prison pipeline, according to a new report co-authored by two UCLA law professors.