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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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UC Newsroom |

12 amazing UC discoveries of 2024

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

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UC Berkeley |

Chronic stress primes brain for mental illness

Chronic stress' impact on stem cells in the brain in turn affects memory and learning. This could explain why stress leads to mental illness later in life.
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UC Berkeley |

Marriage, like fine wine: better when well aged

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage — and then what?
Bunche Hall
UCLA Magazine |

In the footsteps of Ansel Adams

Revisit locales for the iconic photographer's 'Fiat Lux' images, and see how UCLA has changed over a half century.
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UC Newsroom |

UC alums fill Peace Corps ranks

The University of California remains a perennial leader in sending alumni to international service.
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UC Irvine |

Hackers: Catch them if you can

Unhampered by borders and laws, cybercriminals present new security threats.
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UC Santa Barbara |

Maps show expected redistribution of global species due to climate change

An international team of scientists tracks how fast and in which direction local climates — and species — have shifted.
UC Santa Cruz |

Single class inspires tangible change

Alums who formed a socially conscious nonprofit as a way of keeping in touch have funded more than $180,000 in projects.
UC San Francisco |

Stress is contagious: Babies can catch it from their moms

Infants not only pick up on their mother’s stress, but they also show corresponding physiological changes.
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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.
APOLLO moon laser
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.
Steve Yannone, Sylvain Costes and Jonathan Tang
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.