News

Looking for media contacts?

View Press Releases

Three students study together on a blanket on the lawn of the UC Irvine campus, tall trees and buildings visible in the background

Featured Story

UC Newsroom |

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.

Jordan Chiles poses dramatically in a leotard in competition

Featured Story

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.

List Grid
Community
Campuses & Locations
Categories
lab
UC Newsroom |

UC dominates Washington Monthly's college rankings

UC San Diego tops assessment of contributions to the public interest for sixth-straight year and six UC campuses make top 20.
UC Santa Cruz alumnus Mark Lipson, who chaired the Organic Working Group at the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 2010 to 2014, with some of the dry-framed tomatoes grown at Molino Creek Farm.
UC Santa Cruz |

Farm to label: How alumnus helped bring organic labeling policy to the nation

Mark Lipson's career has taken him from Santa Cruz to Washington, D.C., and back again, now as a research associate with UC Santa Cruz's Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems.
Entrepreneur Michael Landa, a UCLA Anderson School of Management alumnus, and his Labrador retriever
UCLA |

It's a dog's life — but better

Pet leads UCLA Anderson grad to idea for business that sells nutritious food for dogs and cats.
UC Merced |

Grant aims to help keep underrepresented students in school

A $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education will fund support services for second-year students with undeclared majors from low-income families, who are most at risk of dropping out.
UC San Diego |

Hopeful outlook for some human stem cell therapies

Induced pluripotent stem cells can be differentiated into various types of functional cells — including retinal pigment epithelium cells destined for the eye, which are less likely to be rejected by the immune system. 
faces illustration
UCLA |

Male or female? It's not always so simple

Researchers are studying the biological origins of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Jean Paul Santos holds antenna assembly
UCLA for The Conversation |

New antenna design could aid interplanetary communication

A small yet powerful antenna would allow the Mars rover to communicate directly with Earth, enabling much more data to be sent back and forth.
Scarlet macaws eat hundreds of fruits a day.
UC Santa Barbara |

Caught in a complex web

A new general consumer-resource model spans the mathematics of a century's worth of food web models and provides a common foundation for new food webs.
Ventura beach
UC Riverside |

Central Coast cities at significant tsunami risk

A quake centered below the Santa Barbara Channel could send inundating waves toward Ventura and Oxnard.
bowl of spinach
UC Riverside |

How clean is your spinach?

Mom was right about washing the greens: Researchers believe peaks and valleys in leaves could be key to numerous bacterial outbreaks involving leafy green vegetables.
Selanops "gliding" spider
UC Berkeley |

Biologists discover skydiving spiders in South American forests

Biologists discover gliding, hunting arachnids in South American forests.
UC San Francisco |

Agricultural intervention improves HIV outcomes

Helping HIV positive Kenyans improve farming practices counters hunger.