UC Berkeley |
Drug perks up old muscles and aging brains
Drug perks up old stem cells in both brains and muscles of mice, pointing the way to drug interventions for humans that would make aging tissues throughout the body act young again.
UCLA |
Professor who taught history — and lived it — retires
Liberated from Dachau in 1945, Ivan Berend went on to become a key figure in Hungary’s transition from communism.
UC Berkeley |
New guide aims to help keep New Deal’s legacy alive
UC Berkeley-based project is dedicated to documenting the vast treasury of public art, park trails, schools, civic buildings and more produced during 1933-1943.
UC Davis |
Deep brain stimulation tested as treatment for cognitive changes in Parkinson's
Parkinson’s disease profoundly affects learning and memory as it progresses, and there currently are no good treatments for these aspects of the disease.
UC Davis |
Gender differences in the autistic brain
Girls with autism show distinct differences in their brains and behavior, compared with autistic boys and with normally developing girls.
UCLA |
Rethinking the history of the American West
Stephen Aron reveals how Manifest Destiny influenced the Nazis and talks about the evolution of scholarship about the West.
UCLA |
Finding strategies to recruit, retain women, minorities as computer majors
Tech companies are funding research to find strategies to recruit and retain women and minorities in computer science majors.
UC Berkeley |
Soil depletion threatens global food security
If trajectory does not change, soil erosion, combined with effects of climate change, will present huge risk to global food security over next century, soil scientists at UC Berkeley and UC Merced warn.
UC Berkeley |
Big Ideas@Berkeley announces contest winners
The student innovation received a record number of applications from 201 teams representing more than 700 students across nine UC campuses and 17 other universities, including 41 applications for the new Food System Innovations category.
UC Davis |
Vaccine field trials for deadly 'foothill abortion' cattle disease expand
Thanks in part to researchers at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, cattle ranchers are one step closer to having a vaccine available to treat a tick-borne bacterial disease that kills cow fetuses.
UC Santa Cruz |
UC Santa Cruz updates instructor's manual for teaching small farm direct marketing
The new edition of Teaching Direct Marketing and Small Farm Viability: Resources for Instructors draws on nearly 50 years of experience teaching these skills to beginning organic farmers and gardeners at the UC Santa Cruz Farm & Garden Apprenticeship.
UC San Diego |
Diverse undergraduates discover pathway to Ph.D.
McNair Program prepares underrepresented students for the rigors of graduate study.