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12 amazing UC discoveries of 2024

Explore new ways of understanding ourselves, our planet and our place in the universe.

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Los Angeles fires news and resources: What’s happening across the UC system and how you can help

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President Napolitano among new members of American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Academy's Class of 2015 includes 22 members from across the UC system.
UC Newsroom |

Art, science inspire student climate-change activism

37 students are awarded fellowships to work on projects that support UC's Carbon Neutrality Initiative.
UC President Janet Napolitano's listens to UC Global Food Initiative student fellows discuss their projects at Masumoto Family Farm in Del Rey.
UC Newsroom |

UC students tour peach farm, meet with President Napolitano

UC Global Food Initiative student fellows gathered near Fresno to dig into the soil, thin fruiting peach trees and discuss the initiative with UC President Janet Napolitano.
UC Davis |

UC Davis opens Life Sciences Innovation Center in Chile

The center’s long-term goal is to support research, development and economic competitiveness in Chile and California with a focus on the agricultural industry, including plant breeding, postharvest and climate-change technologies.
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.
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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.