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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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Luz Torres-Gonzalez, in front, is one of more than a dozen UCLA staff, students and faculty who will be recognized by the UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative at its inaugural symposium for their contributions to campus health and wellness.
UCLA |

Healthy Campus Initiative to honor students, staff at inaugural celebration

More than a dozen UCLA staff members, students and faculty will be honored on April 30 at the inaugural UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative Symposium.
Constantine "Costa" Spyrou, a third-year, food science major, and Sara Schaefer, associate director of the Children's Health and Education Program in the UC Davis Foods for Health Institute, are developing an application for consumers on food they can and
UC Davis |

Nutrition app takes Food Hackathon grand prize

A UC Davis student and his team have developed an award-winning idea for a software application helping consumers choose foods that meet their medication needs.
Genetic diversity of cowpea seed
UC Riverside |

Feeding a growing population

“Food Security for Africa: The Cowpea Story From Lab to Plate” is the topic of the next free public lecture at UC Riverside in a new lecture series on the science of food and health.
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UC San Diego |

Overnight fasting may reduce breast cancer risk

Women who forgo nocturnal dining also appear to lower their risk of diabetes.
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UC San Diego |

Falsified medicines taint global supply

Report calls for improved detection, data collection, analysis to combat 'pandemic' of counterfeit medications.
Project scientist Sarah Kimball gathers samples from an experimental plot, one of several in which UCI researchers subject local vegetation to water deprivation in order to study the results.
UC Irvine |

National conference opens flow of ideas on drought

Top researchers, public officials and policymakers converge at UC Irvine to discuss extreme water shortages and how to handle them.
UC Berkeley |

Big Ideas@Berkeley announces Grand Prize Pitch Day finalists

Six of the most inspiring and promising teams in the student innovation contest, which this year added a food system innovations category, will pitch their projects to a panel of distinguished judges with the aim of receiving up to $5,000 in additional seed…
The UCSB Campus Food Justice Forum invited students, staff, faculty and community members to air their concerns about the campus food system and to pose potential solutions. - See more at: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2015/015324/tackling-food-insecurity#stha
UC Santa Barbara |

Tackling food insecurity

Faculty, students, staff and area residents gather at UC Santa Barbara for group brainstorming and discussion of food security on and around campus.
David Higgins
UC San Diego |

Turning back the clock on Parkinson’s

The Movement Disorder Center at UC San Diego is investigating ways of earlier diagnosis of Parkinson's and other progressive diseases.
Jennifer Doudna and Lorenz Mayr
UC Berkeley |

Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna among Time magazine’s 100 most influential people

Doudna has received numerous honors and awards for her discovery of a revolutionary DNA-editing technique that has upended the world of genetics.
UC Newsroom |

4 UC campuses ranked in Princeton Reviews top 50 green colleges

UC Santa Barbara, ranked third, along with UC Irvine, UC Santa Cruz and UC Davis among top sustainable campuses.
Sama Ahmed, UCSF
UC Newsroom |

UC Grad Slam tests scholars' communication skills

Contest challenges students to amaze and enlighten the public before the three-minute buzzer sounds.