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UC announces record-breaking admissions for fall 2024

The University of California admitted the largest and most diverse class in its history for fall 2024, including big jumps in admission offers to California students, community college transfers and students historically underrepresented.

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UC Newsroom |

Your ultimate guide to the 100+ UC athletes set to shine at the Paris Olympics

103 UC athletes, supported by 13 UC-affiliated coaches and staff, will be going for gold in the Summer Games, competing in 27 sports and representing 31 different nations and five UC campuses.

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My Shake
UC Berkeley |

New app turns smartphones into worldwide seismic network

UC Berkeley scientists developed the MyShake app, which can help detect earthquakes and eventually provide early warning for smartphone users.
Mobile use online
The Conversation |

Many low-income students use only their phone to get online. What are they missing?

A UC Irvine researcher explores the effects unequally distributed online access.
UC Santa Cruz alumnus and current CASFS researcher Mark Lipson was honored for his years of service to the organic and sustainable agriculture movement.
UC Santa Cruz |

UC Santa Cruz researcher wins sustainability champion award

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition honors Mark Lipson for his contributions to the organic and sustainable agriculture movement.
Nanowire laser UC Berkeley
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |

Lasers produced by UC scientists bring light-speed data one step closer

Nanowire innovation illuminates the promise of electronics combined with light.
UC Riverside hackathon winners
UC Riverside |

'Uber for Tutors' helps students learn on demand

Two UC Riverside undergrads who won world's largest education hackathon debut their app on Apple and Google stores.
Wurster Hall, where Charles Phan’s newest eatery will feature his trademark organic international food
UC Berkeley |

Slanted Door restaurateur to open new cafe at UC Berkeley

Charles Phan, who studied architecture at Berkeley in the 1980s, says his newest venture — to be located in Wurster Hall, home of the College of Environmental Design — will feature organic international food, his culinary trademark. T
Memory reward study UC Davis
UC Davis |

Memory replay prioritizes high-reward experiences

UC Davis neuroscientists find that we recall events better when they are associated with a reward.
UC Irvine sea levels
UC Irvine |

Decade of rising seas slowed by land soaking up extra water, study finds

Scientists at UC Irvine and NASA provide the first measurements of how the earth's absorption of liquid is — temporarily — depressing sea levels around the world.
UC Merced Keck Award Munoz
UC Merced |

Prestigious Keck Award granted to UC Merced bioengineer

Professor Victor Muñoz wins highly competitive $1 million prize for biomedical research, the campus's first.
UC Santa Barbara Alzheimer's book
UC Santa Barbara |

The brain game

A new book by UC Santa Barbara's Kenneth S. Kosik offers strategies for reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
Bees
UC Berkeley |

Worldwide bee epidemic linked to human cause: colony trafficking

A UC Berkeley finding suggests that the pandemic is manmade, with trade and transport of bees for crop pollination driving the spread.
Sighing study UCLA
UCLA |

UCLA scientists find out where the brain makes sighs - and why

The discovery of the origin and function of sighing could benefit patients with breathing problems.