UC Irvine |
President Obama to speak at UC Irvine commencement celebration
Months of petitioning paid off: President Obama will speak at UC Irvine's commencement this spring.
UC San Diego |
Faking pain? Can't fool a computer
Humans may think that grimace is genuine, but a computer-vision system can detect clues that give away the ploy.
UCLA Magazine |
Mix chemistry, YouTube and a special teacher for a magical reaction
An award-winning teacher, professor Neil Garg has found new ways to reach the next generation of scientists taking his non-nonsense organic chemistry class.
UCLA |
A winning strategy: Students invent board games that tap into Inca culture, history
Students in an archaeology class on the Inca Empire devised board games based on the history and culture of what was the largest civilization in pre-Columbian America.
UC Berkeley |
Berkeley-borne technology spreading faster than ever
Since Cal's tech-transfer office opened, more than 800 companies have sponsored research projects, investing important resources in many areas and resulting in significant patent and licensing fees.
UC Irvine |
Titanium clubs can cause golf course fires
Sparks fly when head hits rocks in the rough, potentially igniting brush
UC San Diego |
Lied-to children more likely to cheat and lie
When adults are dishonest with their offspring, the children mirror that behavior.
UC Berkeley |
Fierce solar magnetic storm barely missed Earth in 2012
A rapid succession of coronal mass ejections – the most intense eruptions on the sun – sent a pulse of magnetized plasma barreling into space and through Earth’s orbit. Had it hit, it could have disrupted our increasingly electronic lives.
UC Santa Cruz |
Bringing plant back from the brink of extinction
Experimental reintroductions are helping to establish new populations of a critically endangered wetland plant.
UCLA |
Geographers create 'easy button' to calculate river flows from space
The frustrated attempts of a graduate student to quantify the amount of water draining from Greenland's melting ice sheet led him to devise a new way to measure river flows using satellite images.
UC Riverside |
Ancestry.com, UC Riverside partner to digitize historical newspapers
Historians, genealogists, rejoice: Partnership will bring millions of pages of historical California papers online.
UC San Diego |
Glimpse of Big Bang 'fingerprint'
Cosmologists detect curling patterns that appear to have resulted from the initial expansion of the universe.