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UC Newsroom |

Coming of age in a warming world: How UC students are turning climate anxiety into action

How do UC students think about their futures, knowing that the climate they were born into will probably look a whole lot different than the one they grow old in?

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A UC degree launched Miguel Tamayo’s life as an aerospace engineer. Here’s how he paid for college.

Hear how one student paid for a UC education. 

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bar graph showing that 40% of UC students come from low-income households, in comparison with other selective public, private, and ivy league schools, which each enroll less than 24% low-income students
UC Newsroom |

How UC serves low-income students

UC educates more low-income and first-generation college-going students than any other top caliber research university.
UC Newsroom |

New site, new look

Website redesign aims to better serve users, tell UC's story.
Jacopo Annese
UC San Diego |

Amnesiac's brain adds insight into memory

Henry G. Molaison was possibly the most-studied patient of modern neuroscience.
UC Office of the President |

Staff Advisor Kathy Barton reflects on her role

Kathy Barton will conclude her term as Staff Advisor to the Regents in June.  She talks about her experience as Staff Advisor and how she juggles the role with her job as Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives at the new School of Medicine at UC…
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UC Berkeley |

Seafloor carpet catches waves to generate energy

Power generation and water desalination are among potential applications.
dying pines
UC Santa Barbara |

Climate one-two punch

The combination of drought and warming climate may have major environmental consequences.
hacking
UC Irvine |

You’ve been hacked

With computer ‘break-ins’ growing in sophistication and number, UC Irvine researchers work to foil future attacks.
UCLA |

Center marks half century as hub for medieval and Renaissance scholars

Center for Medieval Renaissance Studies innovates with inclusion of scholars from wide-ranging disciplines and farflung cultures beyond a Eurocentric focus.
UC Berkeley |

Researchers open door to new HIV therapy

Researchers ID new target for possible anti-AIDS drugs that would complement current cocktail of drugs used to keep HIV in check.
Irma Ortiz
UC Riverside |

One student’s rise to the top

First-generation collegian seizes opportunities to move into graduate research in agriculture.
John Fan fits child for wheelchair
UC Office of the President |

Physical therapist brings gift of mobility to China's disabled

In rural northern China, where the price of a wheelchair can be as much as a year's earnings, many disabled live without the gift of mobility or the benefit of physical therapy. Often homebound, they depend on family members to carry them from place to…
UC Davis |

Ranchers anticipate devastating impact from drought

Ranching, which depends on rain-fed systems rather than groundwater or stored water, is particularly vulnerable.