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UC Newsroom |

UC medical school graduates take on Central Valley’s health care crisis

More than 700 medical students are earning their M.D. from a UC medical school this spring. The vast majority of these newly minted doctors — 73 percent — will stay in California for their residency training.

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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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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.
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UCLA |

Meditation may slow age-related loss of gray matter in the brain

A new study by UCLA researchers found that meditation appeared to help preserve the brain’s gray matter, the tissue that contains neurons.
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UC Berkeley |

Human Rights Center wins $1M MacArthur grant

UC Berkeley law school program that researches war crimes, other human rights violations is among nine organizations receiving the Chicago-based foundation’s annual prizes for Creative and Effective Institutions.
Gustavo Arellano (left) and David Karp at the CAFE launch
UC Riverside |

UC Riverside's CAFE launch features two esteemed food writers

David Karp and Gustavo Arellano lectured on Tejocote and the history of tacos in California as part of the California Agriculture and Food Enterprise launch.
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UC Berkeley |

1,000th solar suitcase is a beacon in developing world

In just a few years, this innovation has saved lives in places where light and power are rare commodities.
Eric Ederer plays the oud
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Echoes of the Ottoman Empire

UC Santa Barbara Library acquires a sizable collection of classical Turkish music recorded from the early to mid-20th century.
UC Davis researchers have uncovered important genetic clues about the pathogen that causes grape powdery mildew, among the most destructive vineyard pest throughout California and the world.
UC Davis |

Fighting powdery mildew on grapes

A discovery by UC Davis researchers is helping combat costly grape powdery mildew damage.
UCLA |

FDA approves new breast cancer drug

UCLA research played key role in development of Ibrance, targeting estrogen-receptor–positive breast cancer.
Cameron Carter, Christopher Giza and Bruce Miller
UC San Francisco |

UCSF’s Bruce Miller urges Congress to fund brain research

Funding support provided by the National Institutes of Health remains crucial to finding treatments for neurodegenerative diseases.
UC Davis/Mars symposium
UC Davis |

Videos available from UC Davis/Mars symposium on innovation in food and health

Symposium marks launch of the Innovation Institute for Food and Health.