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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 Santa Cruz |

Game designer among top ten game developers of 2013

Brenda Romero, program director for gaming master's program, is recognized by industry site.
UCLA |

Student paves way for new medical clinic in Uganda

When a young Ugandan shared his dream of starting the first hospital in his district to provide free health care services, a UCLA undergraduate student chose to help make it a reality.
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UC Office of the President |

UC goes tobacco free

Sales, ads and use of cigarettes, chewing tobacco and more will go away in January 2014.
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UC Riverside |

How Mosquitoes Are Drawn to Human Skin and Breath

Mosquitoes love the smell of our breath and skin. Researchers are devising compounds that they'll love a bit more.
UC Santa Cruz |

Slippery fault triggered monster quake, tsunami

Unprecedented 50-meter fault slip in temblor that devastated coastal Japan and caused damage an ocean away generated surprisingly little friction.
Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles mayor
UCLA |

Assignment: assembling a portrait of Los Angeles

City project allows photographer to take an unorthodox view of Los Angeles.
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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.