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UC Newsroom |
UC medical school graduates take on Central Valley’s health care crisis
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UC Newsroom |
Transfer students triumph in the Class of 2024
UC Newsroom |
About California's drought
UC researchers offer insights on coping with the state's extended dry spell.
UC Irvine |
Can kava cure cancer?
Commonly brewed for tea, the plant compound is being studied for its effectiveness against bladder malignancies.
UCLA |
Experimental treatment eradicates acute leukemia in mice
Using an existing drug and a new drug developed at UCLA, the researchers wiped out cancer cells in mice with a deadly type of blood cancer, leaving healthy blood cells alone. The treatment might also have applications for other blood diseases.
UC Santa Cruz |
UCSC, UC Hastings offer accelerated law degree program
Students will receive BA and JD degrees in six years compared with the usual seven.
UC San Francisco |
UCSF, Walgreens open pharmacy
Joint endeavor on UCSF campus aims to improve medication safety and decrease health care costs.
UCLA Magazine |
Clayborne Carson: King's chronicler
The man who edits and publishes Martin Luther King’s papers isn't just a scholar of the civil rights movement. Historian, documentarian, playwright and scholar Clayborne Carson lived it.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
Diminishing ice means a darker Arctic
Forty-five years after scientists hypothesized that global warming would make Arctic Ocean surfaces darker, Scripps team determines, through satellite data, how much the planet’s albedo has diminished.
UCLA |
Four threats to American democracy
UCLA professor examines four interconnected issues that could threaten a breakdown of effective democratic government in the United States.
UC Riverside |
Holograms boost electronic performance
Researchers demonstrate a holographic memory device that could improve storage capacity and processing capabilities in electronics.
UCLA |
UCLA launches crowdfunding platform to support research
UCLA Spark utilizes social media to connect donors with faculty and students across campus.
UC Riverside |
Better batting through brain training
UC Riverside’s baseball team struck out less frequently in the 2013 season after taking part in brain-training research that significantly improved the vision of individual players.
UC Santa Cruz |
Black hole shreds a star
New study shows what happens during the destruction of a star as it falls into a black hole, contradicting a 2012 report of the disruption of an exotic helium star.