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Your ultimate guide to the 100+ UC athletes set to shine at the Paris Olympics
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Inspiring healthy habits
Every week for the past four years, Sanna Alas has volunteered at Jordan High, an underserved school in Watts, as part of UCLA’s Mentors for Academic and Peer Support program.
Sanna Alas
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Modeling environmental impacts of agriculture
Ankita Raturi is a model student for the UC Global Food Initiative.
Ankita Raturi
Credit: Roger J. Wyan
The UC Irvine graduate student in informatics has a different take on applying technology to agriculture: Her Global Food Initiative fellowship project…
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Food waste powers project
Ryan Dowdy’s creative juices began flowing as a young child in Alabama. Instead of starting a lemonade stand, he mixed oil, water and food coloring and then sold jars filled with the concoction to his neighbors for 50 cents apiece.
Ryan Dowdy
Now he is…
UC Berkeley |
3D-printed ‘smart cap’ uses electronics to detect spoiled food
Consumers soon may be able to hit “print” to create an electronic circuit or wireless sensor in the comfort of their homes.
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Getting to the root of food issues
Jacqueline Chang grew up in a Southern California suburb and never went camping as a child. So when she toured the Masumoto family’s 80-acre organic farm near Fresno in April with other UC Global Food Initiative student fellows, she was thrilled.…
UC Berkeley |
Investor joins in $100M search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Breakthrough Prize founder Yuri Milner joins 10-year commitment to ramp up SETI.
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UC Health initiative cuts costs, improves quality
Program saved $70 million in first year, aims to save at least $150 million a year in coming years.
UC Berkeley |
Ultra-low-cost solution to a big water problem
Blum Center contest winner aims to remove excess fluoride from drinking water.
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Student fellows to unite at symposium
Several dozen student fellows representing two of UC President Janet Napolitano’s initiatives — carbon neutrality and global food — will join together at a symposium July 20 in San Francisco.
UCLA |
Students head for frontlines of Palestinian-Israeli conflict
Participants journey with the Olive Tree Initiative, a UC-based organization that promotes understanding through immersion in the history, culture and complexities of the conflict.
UC Davis |
Mountain lions' mortal enemy: man
In Southern California, the biggest single threat to the animals' survival is Homo sapiens.
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UC Global Food Initiative marks first year
The initiative is off to a fast start as faculty, students and staff from across the 10-campus UC system focus their collective power on food issues.