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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.

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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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California drought has hit the Central Valley hard.
UC Davis |

Drought costs California agriculture $1.8B, 10,100 jobs in 2015

The drought is tightening its grip on California agriculture, squeezing about 30 percent more workers and cropland out of production than in 2014, according to the latest drought impact report by UC Davis.
Satellite image, Hurricane Katrina in Gulf of Mexico
UC Irvine |

UCI, NASA researchers find link between Amazon fire risk, devastating hurricanes

Warmer-than-usual waters in the North Atlantic contribute to both phenomena.
Adam Burgasser demonstrates Learning Glass
UC Newsroom |

Ten projects win UC’s 2015 information technology awards

Ten teams representing multiple locations across the University of California won the 2015 Larry L. Sautter Award for using information technology to make university operations more effective and efficient, and to better serve faculty, staff, students and…
Stewie the cancer-sniffing dog
UC Davis |

Employing dogs to sniff out cancer

Pups will put their superior sense of smell to work detecting cancer, especially at early stages, in humans.
UC Berkeley
UC Newsroom |

UC campuses rate highly in world university rankings

UC Berkeley leads nine UC campuses in the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities.
Glenda Humiston (right) at a reception with UC staff her first day with UC ANR.
UC ANR |

UC ANR's new vice president shares vision

Glenda Humiston said she will look for ways to expand economic opportunities for farming industries and increase the number of advisors and specialists in UC Cooperative Extension.
Matthew Raiford, a 2011 graduate of the Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture, will be honored at this year's Farm to Fork benefit dinner, a tradition he founded five years ago.
UC Santa Cruz |

Fifth annual Farm to Fork Benefit Dinner opens new Cowell Ranch Hay Barn

The dinner is the inaugural public event inside the newly completed barn that is becoming the headquarters of the UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems.
Artist's rendering of Jupiter-like exoplanet
University of California |

Jupiter-like planet discovered outside our solar system

International team with multiple UC researchers pinpoints young, giant planet with characteristics shared by those in our solar system.
argentine ants
UC Riverside |

Among ants, the nose knows

The insects smell “ant body odor,” helping them distinguish intruders from safe fellow-ants in their colonies.
rebuilding in New Orleans
California Magazine |

Helping heal a hurricane’s scars

A decade later, Cal students are still keeping their pledge to New Orleans.
engineering student
UC Newsroom |

Partnership with HBCUs gives students a taste of grad school

As universities nationally struggle to recruit more diverse students to their graduate programs, one innovative UC effort is having noteworthy results.
male elephant seal
UC Santa Cruz |

Male elephant seals use voice recognition to identify rivals

In competition for mates, males recognize the distinctive calls of their rivals and avoid costly fights by remembering who's dominant.