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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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soil amoeba
UC San Francisco |

Next-generation genomic tests ID brain-eating amoeba

New center aims to make tests more affordable and accessible to doctors.
Founders of Cowell College, UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz |

Tearing down the walls

Pioneering professors and staff at the fledgeling UC Santa Cruz campus challenged convention and traditional academics — helping to reform American higher education.
Gorete Borges Teodoro and Renata Teodoro, cover of Dreams Deported
UCLA |

UCLA students write book about how deportation hurts families

Student-written book, 'Dreams Deported,' is a project of a UCLA labor studies minor class and third in a series on immigration and the immigrant youth movement.
Alice Waters, Vicki Lynn Ruiz, Fedwa Malti-Douglas
UC Newsroom |

UC luminaries to receive National Humanities Medal

Food activist and scholars are among 10 honored for their work elevating the human experience.
Mark Lipson
UC Food Observer |

Q&A: Mark Lipson on organics

For more than three decades, Lipson has been intimately involved with the organic movement; he has recently returned to his roots at UC Santa Cruz, serving as a research associate with UCSC’s Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems.
Eko entrepreneurs Jason Bellet, Connor Landgraf and Tyler Crouch
UC Berkeley |

Alumni startup’s digital stethoscope green-lighted by FDA

Federal clearance sets the stage for unlimited clinical use of the tool by Eko Devices, a Skydeck accelerator-nurtured business.
brain cancer
UCLA |

Promising new treatment for deadliest form of brain cancer

Method combines chemotherapy drug with adoptive cell transfer, in which a patient’s own immune cells are reprogrammed to target the disease.
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UC Newsroom |

UC campuses ranked high for entrepreneurship

AffordableSchools.net named five UC campuses to its top 50 Most Entrepreneurial Schools in America.
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Lawrence Berkeley Lab |

Solar cells absorb light at 30X the concentration of conventional cells

New solar cells absorb high-energy light at 30 times the concentration of conventional cells.
Cowboys of Western Amazonia
UC Santa Barbara |

Rainforest Cowboys

UC Santa Barbara anthropologist explores cattle raising, deforestation and ongoing tensions between conservation and development in the Amazon.
Mark Pollock
UCLA |

Completely paralyzed man voluntarily moves his legs

Robotic step training and noninvasive spinal stimulation enable patient to take thousands of steps.
man with CPAP machine
UCLA |

First evidence of how obstructive sleep apnea damages the brain

The disorder contributes to a breakdown of the blood–brain barrier, which protects brain tissue.