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UC Newsroom |

Coming of age in a warming world: How UC students are turning climate anxiety into action

How do UC students think about their futures, knowing that the climate they were born into will probably look a whole lot different than the one they grow old in?

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UC Newsroom |

A UC degree launched Miguel Tamayo’s life as an aerospace engineer. Here’s how he paid for college.

Hear how one student paid for a UC education. 

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UCLA |

Schools in U.S. growing more separate, still unequal

Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, schools nationwide are becoming more segregated for African Americans and Latinos.
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UC San Diego |

War and Peace (of mind)

Meditation training may help reduce stress disorders among U.S. military personnel.
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UC Berkeley |

Hazardous flame retardants found in preschools, child care

Hazardous chemicals — some banned in furnishings for years — are widespread in indoor environments.
UC Newsroom |

UC aims to better serve community college transfers

Proposals seek to simplify and strengthen the pathway through which one in three undergraduates get to UC.
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UCLA |

Brain's response to sexual images linked to number of partners

Understanding the brain's reaction may help scientists create interventions to reduce sensitivity and, in turn, tendency toward risky sexual behavior.
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UC Newsroom |

UC inventions on display at Tech Commercialization Forum

Research discoveries make the leap to commercial products — and fuel the state's economy.
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UC Newsroom |

A thirst for knowledge

Attacking the drought from all perspectives — that’s the power of public.
Fig. 1 — bike renegades
Fig. 1 by University of California |

Renegades of bike culture

Today’s hipsters and their fixies are not the first to embody the too-cool-for-school persona of the cyclist.
UC San Diego |

Link between e-cigarettes and mental health

Persons with mental health conditions are found more likely to use nicotine-delivery devices.
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UC San Francisco |

Study debunks health claims for e-cigarettes

Researchers urge same restrictions for e-cigarettes as the tobacco variety.
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UC Irvine |

West Antarctic glacier loss appears unstoppable

The volume of melted ice enough is expected to raise sea level around the globe by 4 feet.
Rebecca Peters, UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley |

Berkeley's top graduating senior makes a splash in water policy

Rebecca Peters’ IQ score measured so low in fourth grade that her school did not deem her to be college material. Today she’s a diehard clean-water-access warrior and UC Berkeley’s top graduating senior.