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UC Berkeley |

UC Berkeley alumnus Gary Ruvkun shares 2024 Nobel Prize for discovering microRNA

Ruvkun obtained his B.A. in biophysics from UC Berkeley in 1973.

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UCSF Magazine |

What will it take to produce a COVID-19 vaccine?

Joel Ernst, M.D., addresses key questions about how vaccine development works and why that is especially important in the case of COVID-19.
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UC Riverside |

Professor’s own body becomes physiology lab during pandemic

Adapting to remote learning, professor Rich Cardullo is performing all the experiments for his course on himself.
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UC Newsroom |

Friends, family and members of the Class of 2020: Show your UC pride!

Lift up UC grads across California with our printable, shareable assets and posters.
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UC Newsroom |

What it means to graduate in 2020: UC’s new grads reflect on the moment

The Class of 2020 graduates at a challenging time. Yet our 58,000 new degree-holders have so much to be proud of, and so much more to look forward to ahead.
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UC Berkeley |

Shelter-in-place, other emergency COVID-19 measures prevented more than 500 million infections, study finds

‘I don’t think any human endeavor has ever saved so many lives in such a short period of time,’ author says.
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UC Newsroom |

Newly funded COVID-19 research aims to protect the most vulnerable

Researchers across UC rapidly pivot from their usual research areas to address gaps in knowledge and care with COVID-19.
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UCLA |

Faculty share insights on responses to the killing of George Floyd

Darnell Hunt, Robin D.G. Kelley and Kimberlé Crenshaw, among others, contextualize recent events.
Eric Spangenberg
UC Irvine |

The future of retail

The pandemic may have altered the shopping landscape in permanent ways.
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UC Newsroom |

Is now the time to be your own boss?

Seven alumni on finding purpose and what to know before you become your own boss.
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UC Newsroom |

University of California campuses ranked among the best in the nation

UC campuses are among the best in the nation, according to the QS World University Rankings.
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UC Newsroom |

Thank you to those lending hearts and minds to California’s recovery

From hospitals and labs to neighborhoods across California, UC staff, faculty, alumni and students are putting their creativity and compassion to work to help their neighbors and save lives.
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UC Davis |

Photographer creates ‘Pandemic Portraits’

Karin Higgins documents the ‘new normal’ at UC Davis, highlighting the silver lining each photo subject has found in this historic moment.