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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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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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Scrumpt: Schery Mitchell-James, M.D., an assistant clinical professor, pediatrics at UC Davis School of Medicine and Bri James, CEO.
UC Davis |

Innovations in food sweep 2015 Big Bang! Business Competition

Nearly $40,000 awarded to promising UC Davis startups.
UC Global Food Initiative fellow Hoaithi Dang (right of mascot) is doing his part to make UC Merced a green campus.
UC Merced |

Students take lead in helping campus go green

UC Merced students Gabriel Morabe and Hoaithi “Thi” Dang share a love of green — the color that makes for a better campus and stronger planet.
UC Food Observer |

Q&A with Pat Crawford

The senior director of research at UC's Nutrition Policy Institute discusses her research.
California two-spot octopus hatchling
UC Santa Barbara |

Octopus skin 'sees' without eyes

A new study demonstrates that an octopus’s skin possesses the same cellular mechanism for detecting light as its eyes do.
UC Newsroom |

UC medical centers rated high-performing hospitals by U.S. News

Four University of California medical centers are rated as high-performing in several common procedures in new rankings by U.S. News & World Report.
Screen shot, 'Of Kings and Prophets'
UC Riverside |

ABC picks up TV series developed by UCR scholars

Reza Aslan is executive producer of Biblical production 'Of Kings and Prophets'; Robin Russin is script consultant.
President Napolitano and Santa Ana HS student
UC Newsroom |

Napolitano brings college-going message to the halls of Santa Ana High

Inspiration and practical message shows students how to make attending UC a reality.
oar sits atop parched earth
UC Santa Barbara via The Conversation |

How climate change is making California’s epic drought worse

Studies suggest that climate change might give rise to a new climate regime, one in which the years of low precipitation will be accompanied by warm conditions.
Professor Ken Hiltner, UCSB's Sustainability Champion for 2014-2015, and a group of his students toured Goleta-based Fairview Gardens as part of his course “The Rhetoric of the Anthropocene and Climate Change.”
UC Santa Barbara |

A champion for sustainability

Professor Ken Hiltner, UC Santa Barbara's current Sustainability Champion, is spearheading the campus's Environmental Humanities Initaitive, aiming to engage faculty and students of all disciplines.
dried body of water
ANR via The Conversation |

California’s water paradox: why enough will never be enough

We are a land-rich but water-limited state, and increased supply leads to more demand.
UCLA |

Alcoholism drug appears to work for meth addiction

Researchers testing effectiveness of Naltrexone: 'Results were about as good as you could hope for.'
couple strolls through forest
UC Irvine |

Awe promotes altruistic behavior

The sense of something greater than the self encourages cooperative behavior.