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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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UC Irvine foster care
UC Irvine |

Study shows foster care is bad for your health

First-of-its-kind survey finds greater mental and physical ailments among children who have been in the system.
Mice brain tumor UC San Diego
UC San Diego |

Scientists find way to reduce brain tumors — block cholesterol

Preventing brain cells from importing cholesterol shows promise against hard-to-treat cancer.
UC Berkeley voting
UC Berkeley |

What really motivates people to vote?

Hint: It's not policy.
UC Davis plant geneticist Dario Cantu used a new sequencing technology and computer algorithm to produce a high-quality draft genome sequence of the cabernet sauvignon wine grape.
UC Davis |

Breakthrough paves way for climate-tolerant wine grape varieties

Success of new genome assembly also shown on other plants.
UC San Francisco's Joseph DeRisi is among 10 new UC members elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
UC Newsroom |

10 UC members elected to National Academy of Medicine

The selection is among the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
UC Merced break ground
UC Merced |

UC Merced kicks off historic $1.3B expansion

New project to infuse $1.9 billion into the local economy and double campus size.
UC San Diego Zero Carbon
UC San Diego |

Achieving a zero carbon future

New initiative is determined to radically reinvent the electric power grid.
Low-income communities of color are often deprived of opportunities to sustain healthy eating and active living.
UC Riverside |

Targeting the root cause of childhood obesity

Low-income communities of color grow healthier through community organizing.
A Japanese beetle munches a leaf.
UC Davis |

Diversity as natural pesticide

Why insect pests love monocultures, and how plant diversity could change that.
UC Irvine Mars hero
UC Irvine |

Travel to Mars, risk dementia

Study raises questions about long-term brain health after extended spaceflights.
UC Riverside arctic bee
UC Riverside Magazine |

Hunt for the Arctic bumblebee

An elusive bee could teach us about climate change in one of the least-understood environments on Earth.
DNA art
UC Newsroom |

NIH Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program expands to California

UC-led consortium will help recruit million-person cohort at center of federal effort.