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UC San Francisco and UC Newsroom |

UC leads nation in NIH biomedical research funds

The UC system received more than $1.8 billion in 2014 contract and grant funding from NIH, supporting high-caliber biomedical research that is driving advances in science and breakthroughs in health.
UC San Diego |

Transcending borders through education

UC San Diego is one of several U.S. and Mexican institutions of higher education to launch the CaliBaja Consortium for Higher Education with the goal of becoming a leader in cross-border education by 2020.
UC San Diego |

Change agent

Professor and National Geographic ‘Emerging Explorer’ sets out to address food production’s footprint on global climate change.
U Magazine/UCLA |

Obesity poses serious health risks for moms and their babies

Obesity poses serious health risks for moms and their babies.
UC San Diego |

Lake Tahoe research provides new insights on global change

Scripps scientists reveal how nitrogen is recycled in the ecosystem’s food web.
UCLA |

Income inequality is taking a toll on the health of American workers

It's not just low wages. Study by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health points out another disturbing impact of income inequality: its effect on people’s health.
UC Berkeley |

Eat.Think.Design course opens minds about public health solutions

UC Berkeley course feeds need for rethinking problems of food and nutrition.
UC San Diego |

Florentine 'patient' gets high-tech physical

Two doctoral students travel to Italy to assess the structural condition of one of Florence's landmarks, the Baptistery of St. John.
UC Berkeley |

Why do geysers erupt? Loops in their plumbing

Studies of geysers in Chile and Yellowstone National Park reveal why geysers erupt periodically: the loops and bends in their plumbing.
UC Merced |

Increased risk from toxoplasmosis

Additional strains of the parasite — and the disease it transmits — prove a greater risk even to those with healthy immune systems.
UCLA |

A solution to puzzle of the origin of matter in the universe

Most of the laws of nature treat particles and antiparticles equally, but stars and planets are made of particles, or matter, and not antiparticles, or antimatter. That asymmetry puzzled scientists for many years.
UCLA |

U.N.'s Hilal Elver discusses right to food at UCLA

Elver, the newly appointed United Nations special rapporteur on global food issues, will appear March 5 and 6 at two public events at the UCLA School of Law.