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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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Murmuration art installation
UCLA |

Visual poetry breaks through boundaries of art

Professor Jennifer Steinkamp won a national award for her video installation "Murmuration."
Douglas Thorpe
UC Irvine |

The king of drones

Alum Douglas Thorpe has spent decades developing unmanned aerial vehicles for all kinds of uses.
UC Newsroom |

The sun rises as one of UC's top energy choices

Largest solar power purchase by a university moves UC closer to its goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2025.
Brain scans: with (left) and without obstructive sleep apnea
UCLA |

More proof that sleep apnea hurts the brain

Weaker blood flow to the brain results from the disorder.
UC Santa Barbara |

Breast milk is brain food

Certain fats found in mother's milk appear to be the strongest predictor of academic test performance.
UC San Francisco |

UCSF, Google Earth Engine make maps to predict malaria

UCSF is working to create an online platform that health workers around the world can use to predict where malaria is likely to be transmitted using data on Google Earth Engine.
UC Merced students
UC Newsroom |

New assistance for middle class families

Thousands of eligible students with family incomes up to $150,000 will benefit from state-funded program.
UC President Napolitano
UC Newsroom |

Napolitano: As public research universities go, so goes the nation

UC president gave keynote address at conference centered on issues in higher education.
infant (iStock)
UC Davis |

Early intervention lessens autism symptoms

'Infant Start' therapy treats disabling delays before most children are diagnosed
pupfish
UC Berkeley |

Biologists try to dig endangered pupfish out of its hole

Considered the world's rarest fish, the wild pupfish faces a 28 to 32 percent risk of extinction over the next 20 years. A UC Berkeley biologist is helping to rescue it from that fate.
UC Santa Cruz |

Study traces ecological collapse over 6,000 years of Egyptian history

Ancient Egyptian artworks help scientists reconstruct how animal communities changed as climate became drier and human populations grew.
UCLA |

Biologists delay the aging process by ‘remote control’

Researchers have identified a gene that can slow the aging process throughout the entire body when switched on in key organ systems.