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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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UC to Congress: Federal financial aid helps keep college affordable

Pell Grants and federal student loans are vital to UC’s success in enrolling and graduating significant numbers of low-income and first-generation students.
Monica Banda, a farmer in Zambia, stands in the middle of a field she planted. The field on the left is also hers but was planted using traditional techniques and seed. The fields on the right is a Zasaka field. Banda’s yield increased by two times after
UC Davis |

'Farmer-preneurs' improve crops in Southern Africa

A team of UC Davis grads, students and Zambian colleagues has built a company around simple technologies and practices that aid farmers in avoiding losses and growing more crops.
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UC San Francisco |

Women with dense breasts may not need more screening

Routine mammograms will suffice for many women unless they are at high risk of developing cancer.
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UC Riverside |

Moms' obesity compromises babies’ immune system at birth

Study reveals potential links between changes in a baby’s immune system and increased susceptibility and occurrence of diseases later in life.
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UCLA |

Neuroscience helps explain American households’ $12 trillion debt

Op-ed: Psychiatrist explains how consumerist culture has warped Americans’ brains into reckless spending.
Jeff Dahlberg, director of the UC Kearney Research and Extension Center, with the time capsule that will be buried May 26.
ANR |

UC scientists to bury time capsule with letters to successors

Project part of May 26 celebration to commemorate 50th anniversary of UC Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Parlier.
HIV microclinic in Kenya
UC San Francisco |

Microclinics help keep Kenyan HIV patients in care

Activating patients’ existing social networks helps reduce the stigma of the disease.
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UC San Diego |

Youth dance classes score low in physical activity

Most youth dance classes — from ballet to hip hop — score lower than expected in physical activity.
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UC Berkeley |

Discovery paves way for homebrewed drugs, prompts call for regulation

Sugar-fed yeast — long used for homebrewed alcohol — can yield drugs ranging from antibiotics to morphine. That may be where the government draws the line.
Oscar Wilde
UCLA |

Oscar Wilde was not a plagiarist

Joseph Bristow delves into Wilde’s obsession with obscure poet Thomas Chatterton, deems 'notebook' his original work.
LLNL biologists James Thissen and Crystal Jaing along with researchers from Kansas State University found that the Microbial Detection Array could help identify diseases in the commercial swine industry.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |

Lawrence Livermore Lab technology could help detect diseases in commercial swine industry

The biological detection system also could be useful for cattle and poultry diagnostic tests, as well as for pets such as dogs and cats.
UC Santa Cruz |

Astronomers baffled by discovery of rare quasar quartet

Four quasars, each one a rare object in its own right, have been found in close physical proximity to each other.