UC Berkeley via The Conversation |
Health care cost-sharing prompts consumers to slash medical spending
Consumers appear to cut their medical care spending when deductibles go up, even when it doesn't make any sense.
Lawrence Berkeley Lab |
Leaving on a biofueled jet plane
Researchers develop a process to create drop-in aviation biofuel that won't gel at the low temperatures of the stratosphere.
UC Riverside |
California leads on immigration reform, state citizenship
Public policy experts see White House taking a back seat to states on immigrant integration in the absence of congressional action.
UC Newsroom |
Eight UC researchers named Pew scholars
Early-career scientists, including ones from UC's Berkeley, Irvine, Merced, San Diego and San Francisco campuses, will be doing research in the biomedical sciences and cancer.
UC Newsroom |
Pitch perfect: UC alums take stage at Women's World Cup
Five players and one coach have UC ties at the international soccer tournament, including three key U.S. players.
UC Newsroom |
Against the odds, chemistry grad finds a path out of poverty
By the time he was 6, Rene Amel Peralta was already working full time in construction and odds jobs in Mexico, just trying to survive. By 13, he and his sister had been abandoned by their only parent and had made the treacherous journey across the border.
But…
UC Newsroom |
New UC grads share tales of triumph
As UC's newly minted grads look forward to embarking on a bright new chapter, we profile a few whose extraordinary grit and determination brought them to the place they are today.
UC Newsroom |
Newly minted UC Merced graduate completes path from career to college
On the 10-year-old UC Merced campus, Tamela Adkins is as veteran as they come.
The emergency preparedness manager was among the first employees at the newest UC campus when it opened its doors on Sept. 5, 2005. Last month, the 53-year-old became one of its…
UC Newsroom |
Hard work, ambition and a winning ticket fueled escape from Ethiopia's poverty
In the state of Tigray in northern Ethiopia, poverty and unemployment were rampant and very few had the fortune to go to college. But Getahun Weldeselassie nevertheless banked on education as his best shot at a better life.
He scarcely could have imagined…
UC Riverside |
Diagnosed with brain cancer at 16, she didn't let her illness rule her life
Graduation is always joyful, but for UC Riverside’s Cassie Nguyen, it marks a milestone achieved with an especially large measure of persistence and hope.
Nguyen, who will receive her bachelor’s degree in public policy from UC Riverside on June 14…
UC Newsroom |
Former foster youth finds family, purpose on UC campus
Andre Theus will don his cap and gown June 13 at UC Santa Barbara with a list of accomplishments that includes lobbying in Washington and Sacramento, leadership in student government, and numerous honors and awards. Perhaps best of all, he graduates with a…
UC San Diego |
3-D printed rocket engine aims for flight record
Student engineering team is shooting for a 10,000-foot flight at upcoming rocket competition.