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UC Newsroom |

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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UC Newsroom |

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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The newly planted pizza garden at the UC Desert Research and Extension Center in Holtville.
ANR |

Growing a healthier pizza

Pie-shaped garden helps educate kids about healthy food choices.
“I wanted to open an interesting place where people want to be,” says 2008 UC Irvine graduate Brandon Fender, who co-owns The Good Beer Co. and created Anteater Ale. “Beer, community and a beautiful building – this is the embodiment of my passions.”
UC Irvine |

A golden example

UC Irvine homecoming festival will feature special Anteater Ale, created by alum, in celebration of the campus’s 50th anniversary.
UC Student Regent Sadia Saiffudin of UC Berkeley, center, flanked by Vanessa Terán, left, of Mixteco/Indígena Community Organizing Project, and Melissa Fontaine, right, of Foodbank of Santa Barbara County, were featured in a panel about food justice.
UC Santa Barbara and UC Newsroom |

Food justice at the forefront

UC Santa Barbara hosts inaugural California Higher Education Food Summit on food insecurity.
Sagehen natural reserve
UC Berkeley |

Warmer, drier climate alters forests statewide

Botanists have compared tree survey data from the 1920s and ’30s with forest service data today. They find a decline in large trees and an increase in the density of small trees in forests throughout the state.
UC Newsroom |

UC takes aim at reducing the time to earn a degree

Campuses are evaluating undergraduate degree requirements and increasing participation in summer session to help more students finish in four years.
UC Newsroom |

UC making big moves toward carbon neutrality

Greenhouse gases emissions down to 1990 levels and major steps are initiated to ramp up renewable energy use.
UCSF 'die-in'
UC San Francisco |

Life after the die-in

UCSF medical students sparked a national movement when they launched #whitecoats4blacklives to bring attention to racial health care disparities. They also inspired campus leaders to address racism head-on.
UC Santa Barbara |

Oceans face wildlife loss

The same patterns that led to extinctions on land are now taking place in the sea.
Alan Alda at UC San Diego
UC San Diego |

A blind date with science

'M*A*S*H' actor Alan Alda shows scientists a better way to communicate with the public.
Food served at Pacific Chef Net 2015
UC Santa Barbara |

A gathering of top chefs

University chefs cook up a storm at Pacific Chef Net 2015.
glucose testing tattoo
UC San Diego |

Temporary tattoo measures glucose without a needle

Stick-on device takes the pain out of diabetic testing.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |

Berkeley Lab’s Top 50 game-changing technologies for defeating poverty

Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies produces first-of-its-kind blueprint for sustainable global development.