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UC Newsroom |

Notable UC books of 2024

Featuring New York Times bestsellers, Pulitzer Prize winners and some of the most talked about books of the year, catch up on some of the great reads you may have missed from UC authors.

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12 amazing UC discoveries of 2024

Explore new ways of understanding ourselves, our planet and our place in the universe.

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Lourdes Morales
UC Santa Cruz |

Grad student unites personal passion, programming skills to help others

Undaunted by her own impaired vision, Lourdes Morales is developing computer software to help blind people format documents.
UC Newsroom |

Alum keeps Berkeley pantry churning to feed student parents

As a single mom and undergrad student, Koko Mulder founded UC Berkeley's pantry to help non-traditional students like herself stretch their food dollars. Now a campus staffer, she's still at the pantry's helm.
female students
UC Berkeley |

‘Getting-by girls’ straddle gap between academic winners, losers

A new study spotlights a high school subculture that has made an art of slacking, and may be destined to perpetuate the nation’s struggling lower-middle class.
UC Newsroom |

9 UC campuses ranked among world’s best universities

UC places highly in Academic Ranking of World Universities, which focuses on faculty and research quality.
Leonard Abbeduto, UC Davis MIND Institute
UC Newsroom |

UC summit brings hope for help

Researchers from across UC convened for a first-ever summit on autism — an initial step toward collaborating systemwide to address urgent need for treatments.
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UC San Francisco |

Do gut bacteria rule our minds?

In an ecosystem within us, microbes evolved to sway our food choices.
UC President Napolitano and Oakland high school students
UC Newsroom |

UC president awards scholarships to Oakland teens

Six Oakland teens, all UC bound, receive scholarships from UC Office of the President.
UC Davis |

Program helps to bridge gap between research and market

Grants will make it possible to generate early proof-of-concept models to demonstrate commercial feasibility.
NASA's Stardust spacecraft
UC Berkeley |

Captured space dust likely came from beyond solar system

Seven tiny grains, captured by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft, may turn out to be the first confirmed samples of contemporary interstellar dust.
UC Davis |

State of the lake: high (tech) and dry at Tahoe

Drought, climate change and other natural and human factors are driving changes at Lake Tahoe.
Lawrence Berkeley Lab |

Microbial-based antimalarial drug shipped to Africa

Thirteen-year project culminates with pharmaceutical firm sending 1.7 million treatments of semi-synthetic artemisinin.
UC Newsroom |

UC Irvine named coolest green school by Sierra magazine

All nine UC undergraduate campuses make ranking of most sustainable universities in the country.