How did we become obsessed with thinness? It has to do with race, says sociologist Sabrina Strings.

UC’s leading literary lights give us ideas for a holiday read.

How two blind taste tests stunned the experts and changed the way the world drinks (and thinks about) wine.

Look back on 150 years of amazing discoveries, students and visionaries that helped make UC what it is today in a new video.

A crater on the moon is now named for the Black Arctic explorer, whose achievements were played down in his lifetime.

A new book details how Indigenous Mexicans rebuilt the Roman Catholic Church in the aftermath of an outbreak.

UC Santa Barbara joins forces with global 84000 project to translate entirety of the Tibetan Buddhist canon.

The Tokyo Summer Games marks 100 years of UC Olympic history! See how well you know our competitors past and present with this quiz.

Paging your inner child: Paleontologists conclude 20,000 T. rexes roamed North America at any given time.

The new degree will not only enhance academic offerings but will foster collaborative study regarding the current experiences and histories of people of African descent.

Three UC campuses will help grow a repository that Henry Louis Gates Jr. has called one of the most significant research projects in the history of slavery.

Reflections on the holiday and its global celebrations from scholars at UC Irvine.