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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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Small yellow croaker catch Previous Pause Next 1 of 2 Small yellow croaker is one of four important traditional species fished in the East China Sea.
UC Santa Barbara |

Intense industrial fishing

How China maintains large catches and what it means for fishery management.
UC San Diego ruby seadragon
UC San Diego |

Researchers capture first glimpse of ruby seadragons in the wild

Nearly two years after a marine biologist team discovered the species, they capture the first glimpse of it in the wild.
UC Irvine scars natural healing
UC Irvine |

UC Irvine study reveals natural process for scar-free healing

New discoveries about skin regeneration could also have anti-aging applications.
Vapers beware: 10 things to know about e-cigarettes teen vaping image
UC Newsroom |

Vapers beware: 10 things to know about e-cigarettes

Electronic cigarettes may have special appeal to young people, but that doesn’t mean they are safe.
UC Berkeley plastic
UC Berkeley |

Learning to live without plastic

A professor challenges the ease with which we turn to synthetic materials.
UC San Diego endangered sea turtles
UC San Diego |

Signs of hope for endangered sea turtles in new study

New research will help scientists put together a more effective conservation plan.
Dave Lieberman, a field mechanic at Scoot Networks, fills his water bottle at a water bottle refilling station in Millberry Union on UCSF’s Parnassus campus.
UC San Francisco |

Access to free drinking water in SF neighborhoods driven by new partnership

Over next year, 19 new public water stations will be installed across San Francisco.
Dark brown to black in color, Asian shot hole borers are minuscule in size.
UC Santa Barbara |

Holy guacamole

After finding invasive Asian beetles in native Montecito trees, UC Santa Barbara researchers are trying to determine how widespread they are.
Coffea arabica
UC Davis |

Arabica coffee genome sequenced

Coincides with birth of California-grown specialty coffee industry.
UC Merced bio bots
UC Merced |

Students build living machines out of engineered tissues

Bio-bots do what robots do — in fields like medicine and national defense — even better.
DNA differences UCSF
UCSF |

Cultural differences may leave their mark on DNA

Groundbreaking new study shows how deeply ethnicity combines genetics and environment.
UCLA sushi fraud
UCLA |

Bait and switch? Study finds fish fraud runs rampant

Half the time what’s on the menu at LA sushi restaurants is not what’s on your plate.