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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 Newsroom |

President Napolitano to interview Salk biographer

Commonwealth Club event Aug. 19 features Napolitano in conversation with Dr. Charlotte Jacobs, author of "Jonas Salk: A Life."
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UC Santa Cruz |

Precision medicine initiative funds UC Santa Cruz pediatric cancer project

State initiative provides $1.2 million for the Genomics Institute's California Kids Cancer Comparison project.
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography |

Climate change causes timing shifts in fish reproduction

Warmer ocean temperatures affect seasonal cycles, study finds.
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UC San Diego |

UC San Diego participates in Coursera Global Skills Initiative

Qualcomm Institute and San Diego Supercomputer Center online courses have goal to advance access to job-relevant skills around the world.
Alice Waters (left) tours the Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley with UC President Janet Napolitano at the launch of the UC Global Food Initiative.
UC Santa Cruz |

Q&A with Alice Waters

Chez Panisse chef and owner, a UC Berkeley alumna, will receive the Foundation Medal at UC Santa Cruz's Founders Celebration Fiat Fifty dinner on Sept. 26.
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Greater Good Science Center |

How awe makes us generous

A new study from UC Berkeley and UC Irvine finds that feeling small in nature makes us more generous to other humans.
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UC Riverside |

Flowers can endanger bees

Study by UC Riverside entomologist and colleagues shows flowers serve as parasite-dispersing hubs.
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UCLA |

Moral judgments soften with time, distance, study shows

People judge acts like lying, theft and assault to be wrong — but less wrong if those acts happened far away or long ago, UCLA-led research suggests.
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UCLA |

UCLA moves to establish independent Herb Alpert School of Music

If approved, it would be first stand-alone music school in the UC system.
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UCLA |

How to convince vaccine skeptics, and how not to

UCLA and University of Illinois psychologists find a way to change minds.
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UC Irvine |

Summer romance: Will it last?

UC Irvine researchers apply scientific method to study of how we receive affectionate messages.
UC San Francisco |

California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine announces funding for 2 projects

Use of big data to identify cancer treatments and a DNA sequencing test to diagnose hospital infections are the first projects of UCSF, UC Health initiative.