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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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UC San Francisco |

Working up a sweat may protect against lethal prostate cancer

Vigorous exercise and other healthy lifestyle habits appear to have lifesaving benefits.
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UC Berkeley |

Celebrating World Toilet Day, reinventing sanitation

U.N. World Toilet Day, Nov. 19, highlights global sanitation shortfalls and their toll on human health and the environment.
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UC Davis |

More women CEOs but executive suite's still a male bastion

More women than ever before are running the state's largest public firms, but they still hold just one in eight of the senior executive and director positions in corporate California. 
Panelists at the discussion about GMO food: (from left) moderator Greg Jaffe; Josette Lewis; Norm Ellstrand; Belinda Martineau; Alan McHughen.
UC Riverside |

Genetic engineering needs better regulation, UC scientists say

Panel says genetic modification is just a tool that can be good or bad, depending on its application.
elderly men chatting
UC San Francisco |

$177M gift will found Global Brain Health Institute to fight dementia

Atlantic Philanthropies funds UCSF and Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, to stem the precipitous rise in dementia by training and connecting a new generation of leaders worldwide.
Nest We Grow project
California Magazine |

Architectural students reinvent the community center

Imagine a community center that’s not your typical chunk of cinderblock — instead it’s an architecturally avant garde space where neighbors gather to grow, cook and eat food.
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UC Newsroom |

UC Carbon Neutrality Student Fellows tackle big climate problems

The fellowships will fund projects, from the classroom to the operating room, that will steer the UC system toward its carbon neutrality goal.
Naja Barker and classmates
UC Newsroom |

UC leaders head back to high school

UC leaders will deliver a college-going message to high school students around the state, as part of the annual Achieve UC effort.
Sophie and her 3-D-printed hand
UC Berkeley |

Engineers give a girl a hand

Eight-year-old Sophie doesn’t have fully developed finger bones in her left hand, but with the help of a CITRIS Invention Lab team, she is the new user of a 3-D printed super hand.
toddler and toys
UC Merced |

Toddlers can spy deception in others

Even tots younger than 2 can tell when someone's trying to pull a fast one.
Zachariae Isstrom glacier
UC Irvine |

Massive northeast Greenland glacier is rapidly melting

Breakup of Zachariae Isstrom could substantially raise sea levels around the globe.
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California Magazine |

Students increasingly bringing “emotional support” animals to college

Nobody claims the dorms are evolving into petting zoos. But animals are gaining a toehold (clawhold?) in Cal residences.