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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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UCLA |

Amputation more likely for poorer diabetics

Poor patients are up to 10 times more likely to lose a limb than wealthier ones; earlier care could prevent most losses.
Charles Cai
UC Riverside |

New technology boosts biofuel production

Research leader: 'Successful commercialization of biofuels technology is about yield, yield, yield, and we obtained great yields with this novel technology.'
UC Santa Cruz |

Old evidence leads to new ideas about quake hazards in Pacific Northwest

Sediment cores collected in 1960s for doctoral thesis have attracted renewed scrutiny for clues to Cascadia earthquakes.
Philip Viera
UC Riverside |

A neuropsychology and beer mixer

Taking advantage of new brewery business model, graduate student starts selling his beers.
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UC Berkeley |

Global economic losses from cyclones linger for decades

New study debunks the idea that cyclones have no long-term, lasting economic impacts, and suggests the urgent need for revamping disaster policy around the world.
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UC Santa Barbara |

Tracking giant kelp from space

Marine researchers turn to citizen scientists to help investigate the ‘redwoods of the ocean.’
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UC Santa Barbara |

Can you trust that app?

That smartphone download might give a hacker access to your data. In response, computer scientists are set to receive $1 million to study smartphone security issues.
Lisa White
California Magazine |

Paleontologist entices diverse students to dig her field

We love to see giant dinosaur fossils in museums, but microfossils are everywhere, geoscientist Lisa White tells school kids. An African-American woman in one of the least diverse scientific fields, White directs education and public programs at the Museum of…
UC Davis |

Prenatal exposure to DDT linked to obesity, diabetes

Exposure to the once-common pesticide before birth slowed the metabolism of female mice and lowered their tolerance of cold temperature. This increased their likelihood of developing metabolic syndrome and its host of related conditions.
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UC Santa Cruz |

Tidal forces gave moon its shape

Most of the moon's overall shape can be explained by taking into account tidal effects acting early in the moon's history.
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Special to UC Newsroom |

Expanding access to specialty care

Electronic consultation program between primary care physicians and specialists aims to reduce unnecessary in-person appointments, improve patient outcomes and lower costs.
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Special to UC Newsroom |

Providing a medical home for HIV patients

At UC San Diego Health System, a multidisciplinary approach to HIV care management is improving outcomes for patients. This approach could be a model for chronic care management for others.