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Next up for UC’s Class of 2025? Building California’s brilliant future

From jobs to graduate school to giving back to the communities they came from, UC’s latest crop of graduates has big plans to make a difference.

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Is college worth it? For University of California grads, the data offers an undeniable ‘Yes!’

Not only do large percentages of UC alums enter the workforce with no student debt, but their degrees deliver an array of economic and social benefits both for themselves and their communities.

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UC Davis |

Study casts doubt on mammoth-killing cosmic impact

Whatever triggered the Younger Dryas cold period, it wasn't a comet or meteorite colliding with Earth.
Shown here with other dry bean varieties, white dry lima beans are primarily grown in California.
ANR |

UC helps California lead the way in lima beans

Growers depend on UC research for improved varieties.
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Lawrence Livermore Lab |

Technology quickly traces source of tainted food

Contaminated food sickens 1 in 6 Americans every year. DNATrax traces the bad stuff back to its source.
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UC Newsroom |

How songbirds may help build a better hearing aid

Avian ability to pinpoint 'signal' sounds inspires algorithm at the heart of a new type of auditory device.
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UC Global Food Initiative: Our commitment

UC is committed to putting its campuses, the state and the world on a pathway to sustainably and nutritiously feed themselves.
Joan Hanawi
UCLA |

Small investment has big payoff as students launch public service projects globally

Global Citizens Fellowships challenge undergrads to transform communities.
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UC Santa Cruz |

UC Santa Cruz turns 50

Campus begins yearlong celebration of its trailblazing history and groundbreaking impact on the world.
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UC Newsroom |

Ten ways UC has made California better

From slugging Jackie Robinson to surfing the Internet, UC — its researchers and its students — have helped shaped California and the world.
UC Newsroom |

2014 across UC

In many ways, it was a very good year at the University of California's campuses and labs.
UC Merced |

Solar, water research proposals receive UC grants

Awards totaling an anticipated $5 million will fuel intercampus research into a sustainable future for the state and nation.
UC Berkeley |

Is it lonelier at the bottom or at the top?

Psychologist links human quest for power, influence and a foothold in the social hierarchy to mental health.
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UC Newsroom |

The most discussed UC research of 2014

Academic studies from the University of California were among the most talked about research in online and popular media.