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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 |

Transfer students triumph in the Class of 2024

Meet 10 first-gen graduates who started their journey to UC at a California community college.

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University of California |

UC celebrates 150 years of pioneering a better future

Reflecting on a century and a half of life at the world's most renowned public university.
Unite to Light Ghana
UC Santa Barbara |

A guiding light for the vulnerable

Unite to Light, a nonprofit that has distributed over 90,000 solar lamps to 65 countries, now turns to help Rohingya refugees.
yellow warbler UCLA
UCLA |

How bird genetics adapt to climate change

Scientists find yellow warbler DNA is already adjusting to new conditions and ask whether it's enough to survive.
NYE UC Merced
UC Merced via The Conversation |

For richer or poorer: 4 economists ponder what 2018 has in store

Greg Wright and others project the winners and losers of the economy in the coming year.
Thiebaud UC Davis
UC Davis |

First Thiebaud paintings uncrated for upcoming exhibition

The first exhibition devoted to Thiebaud's artistic maturation opens Jan. 16 at Manetti Shrem.
UC San Diego tripwire
UC San Diego |

Computer scientists develop a simple tool to tell if websites suffered a data breach

No one — companies or nation states — is above big data hacks, researchers find.
CRISPR UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley |

First step toward CRISPR cure of Lou Gehrig’s disease

Scientists disable a muscle degeneration trigger to extend mouse lifespans by 25 percent.
UC Santa Barbara |

How do we break our addiction to plastic?

More than 8.3 billion metric tons (9.1 billion tons). That’s the amount of plastic humans have created since the large-scale production of synthetic materials began in the early 1950s. It’s enough to cover the entire country of Argentina, and most of the…
UC Newsroom |

Can behavioral psychology help stop food waste?

Sustainable dining is a huge deal on college campuses today, and the University of California, Santa Barbara is no exception. In fact, for years they’ve been taking an innovative approach towards reducing food waste by using behavioral psychology techniques…
UC Irvine drought monitoring tool
UC Irvine |

New drought index provides insight all over the globe

Keeping track of the climate just got easier, thanks to a new satellite-based monitoring tool.
UC Davis driverless cars
UC Davis |

How driverless cars will change travel

Transportation expert Lewis Fulton weighs in on what roads will look like five, 10, even 20 years from now.
UC San Diego touch study
UC San Diego |

The amazing sensitivity of human touch

People can feel when surfaces differ by just a single layer of molecules, suggesting new avenues for touch technology.