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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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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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U.S. Army veteran James Harris, an apprentice at the UC Santa Cruz Farm, finds working the soil is another way to serve. Harris joined the Army at age 19 after the 9/11 attacks.
UC Santa Cruz |

How military veterans learn to become organic farmers at UC Santa Cruz

Serving the community with compost, seeds and hard work.
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UCLA |

Gut bacteria could hold key to fountain of youth

Keeping intestinal bacteria in balance could help delay the onset of age-related diseases.
UCLA senior Grant Guess (right) and farmer Thomas Bodzrenou hold giant land snails that will be bred, raised and sold to local markets and restaurants. The snails are the latest venture that Guess has launched to benefit a school for children with disabil
UCLA |

Grass-cutters, mushrooms and giant land snails

UCLA senior creates sustainable farm projects to help children with disabilities in Togo, West Africa.
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn pictured on Friday, Sept. 4 awaiting the pouring of concrete at the entrance and along the west side.
UC Santa Cruz |

Pie potluck, barn dance mark Cowell Ranch Hay Barn dedication

Barn to house teaching, office, event space and headquarters for the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at UC Santa Cruz.
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UC Berkeley |

Single protein at the root of dengue's virulence

Blocking this protein may prevent the virus' lethal effects, and ultimately may lead to a vaccine.
Tracy Kahn, UC Riverside
UC Riverside |

Citrus Variety Collection to be maintained in perpetuity

$1 million endowment from Givaudan will allow for the creation of endowed chair position to support and maintain collection.
Bryan-Morris Ranch manager Jim Morris stands in a flooded alfalfa field along the Scott River in Siskiyou County.
UC Davis |

Flooding farms in winter may help replenish groundwater

UC Davis researchers are encouraged by early results from tests to see if deliberately flooding farmland in winter can replenish aquifers without harming crops or affecting drinking water.
student reads book near Berkeley Campanile
UC Newsroom |

U.S. News gives high ratings to UC campuses

UC dominates list of best public universities — Berkeley, UCLA, Santa Barbara, Irvine and San Diego counted among top 10, followed closely by Davis at 11.
Riverside Unified School District's produce is purchased fresh and whole from local farms and prepared in-house.
UC ANR |

Schools serving healthier meals for students

UC is conducting case studies of selected California schools to evaluate the effects of a USDA grants program; farm-to-school tours show firsthand the benefits and challenges of providing farm-fresh produce to students.
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UC Newsroom |

UC alumni fill Teach for America's 2015 ranks

Nearly 200 of Teach for America's current crop of teachers hail from UCLA, Berkeley, Santa Barbara and San Diego.
Wildfire in Sequoia National Forest
UC Irvine, UC Davis and UCLA |

Southland wildfires: two types, both raging

Santa Ana-fanned fires in autumn spread much faster than conflagrations in the dry summer months, but both will wreak more damage in the coming decades.
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Blum Center for Developing Economies at UC Berkeley and UC Newsroom |

Got a big idea? Save the world and win prizes

This year’s Big Ideas student innovation contest features nine categories, including the newly extended Energy & Resource Alternatives category, sponsored by the UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative.