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UC Newsroom |

Notable UC books of 2024

Featuring New York Times bestsellers, Pulitzer Prize winners and some of the most talked about books of the year, catch up on some of the great reads you may have missed from UC authors.

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12 amazing UC discoveries of 2024

Explore new ways of understanding ourselves, our planet and our place in the universe.

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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.
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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.
UCLA |

Older adults: Build muscle and you'll live longer

New research suggests that it's greater muscle mass — not a good body mass index — that makes older Americans less likely to die prematurely.
Marge from The Simpsons
Lawrence Berkeley Lab |

A conversation with Berkeley Lab’s ‘Pi Guy’

'The Simpsons' needed to know the 40,000th decimal digit of pi. David Bailey was the go-to guy.
Hermosa study teen and participant
UC Newsroom |

Taxpayer donations give cancer research a boost

When you file your taxes, consider supporting these programs — simply checking a box can help save lives.
UC San Diego |

Symposium examines NAFTA at 20

Art, culture, politics and economics intersect at Mexico Moving Forward event.
UC Berkeley |

What would Buddha do, economically speaking?

After students expressed discontent with the traditional economic model and a pervasive 'more is better' philosophy, professor Clair Brown developed a new sophomore seminar featuring Buddhist economics.