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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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Ebola virus
UC Newsroom |

The Ebola crisis

UC is active in the battle against the deadly virus, now in its most widespread outbreak.
UC Davis |

Manipulating memory with light

Researchers have used light to erase specific memories in mice, and proved a basic theory of how different parts of the brain work together to retrieve episodic memories.
Griselda Sanchez-Pelayo counsels student
UC Santa Barbara |

Dispensing college knowledge

Early Academic Outreach Program connects with thousands of high school students in Ventura, Kern and Santa Barbara counties, with impressive results.
UC Newsroom |

President's postdoc fellowship turns 30

At 30, UC president's postdoc program has groomed dozens of the country's best emerging scientists and scholars for UC academic careers.
marine gravity model of the North Atlantic
UC San Diego |

New map exposes details of seafloor

Mysteries of the deep come alive as satellite data bring thousands of uncharted sea mountains and new clues about deep ocean structures into focus.
Kara Cooney
UCLA |

Egyptologist gives new life to female pharaoh

No usurper, Hatshepsut was just really good at her job, according to new biography.
Shuji Nakamura, UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Barbara |

UCSB's Shuji Nakamura wins Nobel Prize in physics

Nakamura, co-inventor of the blue LED — which made the white LED lamp possible — is UC's 61st Nobel laureate. Fiat Lux, indeed!
UC Merced |

UC Solar works to meet state’s renewable energy goals

Institute sponsors seminar exploring the solar industry present and future, and the many creative initiatives being developed by UC.
Southern Ocean
Lawrence Livermore Lab |

Ocean warming in Southern Hemisphere underestimated

Global ocean warming appears to have been underestimated by 24 to 58 percent.
UC San Francisco |

$17M award aims to improve clinical trials for traumatic brain injury

Department of Defense award joins universities, FDA, firms, philanthropies in partnership.
Mountain lion
UC Santa Cruz |

Power of mountain lion's pounce

High-tech collars enable scientists to record the energetics of mountain lion hunting behavior, showing how they overpower large prey.
UC Newsroom |

Four UC faculty awarded National Medal of Science

Professors from UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco receive nation's highest honor for contributions in science.