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UC announces record-breaking admissions for fall 2024

The University of California admitted the largest and most diverse class in its history for fall 2024, including big jumps in admission offers to California students, community college transfers and students historically underrepresented.

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Your ultimate guide to the 100+ UC athletes set to shine at the Paris Olympics

103 UC athletes, supported by 13 UC-affiliated coaches and staff, will be going for gold in the Summer Games, competing in 27 sports and representing 31 different nations and five UC campuses.

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students Aaron Minoofar and Guy Dotan
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.
golf club
UC Irvine |

Titanium clubs can cause golf course fires

Sparks fly when head hits rocks in the rough, potentially igniting brush
girl with fingers crossed behind her back
UC San Diego |

Lied-to children more likely to cheat and lie

When adults are dishonest with their offspring, the children mirror that behavior.
coronal mass ejection
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.
Jim Velzy and Ingrid Parker
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.
Greenland river
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.
BICEP2 and South Pole Telescope
UC San Diego |

Glimpse of Big Bang 'fingerprint'

Cosmologists detect curling patterns that appear to have resulted from the initial expansion of the universe.
UC Irvine |

Professor wins book award for Haiti memoir

Amy Wilentz is honored by the National Book Critics Circle.
Dave Wernick
UC Newsroom |

grad research day 2014

Grad students travel to Sacramento to share work vital to meeting the needs of the state and its citizens.
dry river bed
Scripps Institution of Oceanography |

Long dry spells ahead

By century's end, some parts of the world will have as much as a month less rainfall.