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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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UC Newsroom |

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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quake alert app
California Magazine |

Quake alert? There'll soon be an app for that

Smartphone technology will make it easier to expand early-warning networks.
UC Berkeley |

Anthropologist honored for organ trafficking research

When Nancy Scheper-Hughes began monitoring the transnational organ-transplant trade, some may have thought she was off-the-mark. But a new award recognizes the positive public-policy impacts of this self-proclaimed “agent provocateur.”
UC Riverside |

Prenatal exposure to alcohol disrupts brain circuitry

These babies may suffer from increased anxiety and poor motor function, conditions typical of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
precision medicine
UC San Francisco |

Searching genes for drug reactions

UCSF School of Pharmacy is one of the first pharmacy schools in the nation to offer its students genetic testing for drug response.
UCI students with Global Brigades
UC Irvine |

Foot soldiers in the war on poverty

Students who volunteer with Global Brigades work in the trenches – sometimes literally – to make the world a better place.
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UC Davis |

West Village: setting the standard for sustainability

The nation’s largest planned zero-net energy community racks up an impressive list of achievements in its first year.
UC Newsroom |

Stay here. Take classes there.

Cross-campus enrollment project makes it easier for UC undergrads to take online courses on other campuses.
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UC Davis |

Grape microbes add to wine's distinctive terroir

The microbial communities living on the surface of grapes may shape a wine’s terroir — the unique blend of vineyard soil and climate of every winegrowing region.
JFK
UC Newsroom |

JFK: Fifty years on

Looking back at President Kennedy's assassination a half century ago.
UC Riverside |

License to ill

Firms that engaged in prior socially responsible behavior are more likely to then engage in socially irresponsible behavior.
UCLA |

Film archive footage captures the Kennedy era

If you tuned in to watch the PBS documentary, “American Experience: JFK,” earlier this week, you saw historical footage taken from the holdings of the UCLA Film and Television Archive — including clips of John F. Kennedy during his…
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UCLA |

Biologists find an evolutionary Facebook for monkeys and apes

For Old World primates, the variety and complexity of their facial colors and patterns play a major role in helping them identify members of their own species and communicate with one another.