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California Magazine | Tuesday, March 31, 2015

First-gen students torn between college and home

First-gen university students may find themselves torn between college and home.

UC Davis | Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Ten percent of San Joaquin Valley's ozone pollution comes from outside California

Ten percent of San Joaquin Valley's ozone pollution comes from outside California, particularly from Asia.

UCLA | Monday, March 30, 2015

Stop blaming the moon

Busy night in the maternity ward or the emergency room? Contrary to folk belief, it's not the fault of a full moon.

UC Davis | Monday, March 30, 2015

Sea change: What took decades to destroy in oceans took millennia to recover

Ocean ecosystems that experience rapid upheaval because of climate change can take thousands of years to recover.

UC Newsroom | Thursday, March 26, 2015

UC researchers received three grants totaling more than $12 million in funding from the state’s stem cell agency to develop stem cell treatments for Huntington’s disease, spina bifida and chronic diabetic wounds.

UC Newsroom | Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Medical students celebrate Match Day

On March 20, more than 650 UC medical students were among the nearly 17,000 seniors at traditional U.S. medical schools who learned where they were matched for their residencies.

UC Santa Barbara | Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Speaking in the vernacular

Library of Congress adds Vernacular Wax Cylinder Recordings collection to the National Recording Registry.

UC San Francisco | Wednesday, March 25, 2015

UCSF to study benefits of personal approach to breast cancer screening

Research team has won a five-year, $14.1 million award to investigate whether a personalized approach to breast cancer screening is as safe and effective as annual mammograms.

UC Davis | Wednesday, March 25, 2015

New funding for endangered Delta smelt 'refuge'

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awards nearly $2.5 million per year for four years for UC Davis lab's work for the species.

UC Davis | Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Ag-tech startup helps farmers analyze water use

Tule, a new business formed with the strength of UC Davis research behind it, was one of 14 startups launched last year with UC Davis support.

The first "bent," a cross beam, posts, and supports joined by wooden pegs, is hoisted into place by a crane early Saturday morning while others, already assembled, await their turn on the new barn's concrete slab.

UC Santa Cruz | Monday, March 23, 2015

Historic hay barn rises again

Over a weekend, volunteers joined professionals to raise the timber-framed superstructure for the re-creation of the Cowell Ranch hay barn, which will become a center for sustainability programs at UC Santa Cruz.