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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 Riverside |
Riverside alum pilots bobsled at Winter Olympics
Cory Butner, '05 graduate, is third Olympian in school history.
UC Santa Cruz |
If it ain’t Baroque, don’t fix it
Four decades ago, music professor Linda Burman-Hall founded the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival. It's still going strong today.
UC San Diego |
Source of ‘moon curse’ revealed by eclipse
When signals bounced off the lunar surface returned surprisingly faint echoes on full moon nights, scientists sought an explanation in reason rather than superstition.
Lawrence Berkeley Lab |
Startup wants to know how damaged your DNA is
Berkeley Lab scientist has devised a method of automating the screening process; through his startup, he hopes to make it as commonplace as a cholesterol test.
UC Santa Cruz |
Professor’s e-book featured on startup site for women
Micah Perks' memoir, 'Alone in the Woods,' explores women and the wilderness.
UCLA |
More pesticides linked to Parkinson's
A person's genetic makeup could increase his or her chance of developing the debilitating disease two- to six-fold after pesticide exposure.
UC San Francisco |
Immunotherapy: the last hope
Patricia Hollowell gets a hug from her grandson Cody, 3, at her daughter's home in San Rafael, Calif.Credit: Cindy Chew Patricia Hollowell, 80, was diagnosed with melanoma in April 2012.She had three surgeries in quick succession in her hometown of Grand…
UC San Francisco |
The ultimate betrayal
Robert Bruce meets with Adil Daud, MD, at UCSF Medical Center to discuss the
progress of his immunotherapy treatments as part of Daud's clinical trial of the
PD-1 antibody. Credit: Cindy Chew
When Robert Bruce, of El Dorado, Calif., was diagnosed in March…
UC San Francisco |
Killing cancer through the immune system
What if the body could heal itself of even the most aggressive and deadly tumors? In the span of a few years, the idea has gone from New Age notion to medical reality.
UC Berkeley |
Intellectual migration from fascist Europe to Berkeley
Exhibition at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life traces the journeys of artists, writers and scholars who eventually made their way to safety and intellectual prominence at UC Berkeley.
UC Irvine |
Professor/provost's take on ‘Downton Abbey’ and diversity
Professor, administrator is a scholar of British history, fan of the TV series and award-winning champion of equity in faculty hiring
UC Davis |
New technique makes "biogasoline" from plant waste
One day, you may fill up your tank with gasoline-like fuels made from cellulosic materials such as farm and forestry waste, using a new process invented by chemists at UC Davis.