A row of students in graduate robes, caps and stoles wave hands excitedly in front of a library

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UC Newsroom |

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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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.
bacteria
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.
D.B. Weiss and David Benioff
UC Irvine |

Irvine alum co-created "Game of Thrones"

Once a struggling writer, alumnus David Benioff is now Hollywood royalty as the co-creator of HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones.’
UC Davis |

Drought and humans combine for dangerous fire season

Ten major wildfires are blazing in California; several more are burning in Oregon and Washington.