UCLA Magazine |

True blue

A UCLA art historian is exploring what the color blue can tell us about the hidden history of Indigenous peoples.
UC San Diego |

New imaging techniques for cancer diagnosis ... from butterfly wings?

Using the nanostructures found on butterfly wings, scientists have developed a simple and inexpensive way to analyze cancerous tissues.
UC Newsroom |

17 UC faculty named 2025 Sloan Research fellows

Sloan Research fellowships support promising early-career scientists and scholars to continue leading in their fields.
UC Davis |

UC Davis earns prestigious AAAS SEA Change Institutional Silver Award

UC Davis is given the highest marks in the country by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for its effective actions that foster an inclusive, creative, and supportive STEMM environment.
UC San Diego |

Better vision through artificial intelligence

A unique collaboration between electrical engineers and ophthalmologists solves clinical, computational challenges.
UC Riverside |

Breast cancer treatment advances with light-activated ‘smart bomb’

The breakthrough makes photodynamic therapy safer, more effective.
UC San Francisco |

Could a bacteria-killing virus help solve antibiotic resistance?

Meet the jumbo phage. Scientists believe they’ve cracked the code on how its ‘secret handshakes’ act as a shield against the host bacteria’s defenses.
UC Merced |

UC Merced achieves R1 classification, bringing all UC campuses to the highest tier among research universities

Each UC campus now resides among the exclusive group of 187 accredited doctoral-granting universities in the United States designated R1 by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.
UC Newsroom |

How research prepared Sonya Brooks to represent UC students on the Board of Regents

The first Black woman to serve as UC's student regent talks about her scholarship, her journey as a student raising young kids, and her priorities for change.
UC Office of the President |

UC supports legal action against misguided plan to cut vital NIH research funds

UC today (Feb. 10) submitted a declaration in support of the California Attorney General’s suit against the federal government in response to new guidance issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
UC Santa Barbara |

Researchers solve a fluid mechanics mystery

UC Santa Barbara researchers now know why a pool of red dye somehow “knew” how to solve a maze filled with milk.
UC Merced |

Multinational research project shows how life on Earth can be measured from space

UC Merced professor Erin Hestir co-led NASA's first-ever biodiversity-focused study.