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UC Newsroom |

Next up for UC’s Class of 2025? Building California’s brilliant future

From jobs to graduate school to giving back to the communities they came from, UC’s latest crop of graduates has big plans to make a difference.

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Is college worth it? For University of California grads, the data offers an undeniable ‘Yes!’

Not only do large percentages of UC alums enter the workforce with no student debt, but their degrees deliver an array of economic and social benefits both for themselves and their communities.

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zebras
UC Davis |

Scientists solve the riddle of zebras’ stripes

Alternating hues help discourage biting flies from tormenting the short-haired creatures.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |

New director named for Lawrence Livermore Lab

William Goldstein, a 29-year lab employee, will assume the director's position on March 31.
UC Berkeley concrete canoe
California Magazine |

Cal engineering team designs canoe of concrete

Cal engineering team designs, builds — and races — a canoe of concrete.
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UCLA |

Labor expert weighs in on new Cesar Chavez biopic

Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, project director with the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, talks about the first biopic to feature the iconic Chicano labor leader.
UC Santa Barbara |

Could closing the high seas to fishing save migratory fish?

Such action could accomplish not only that but also increase fisheries' profits and yields.
dental student
UCLA |

Dentist shortage bites California

More new dentists choose to practice out of state; the lingering recession, the elimination of Medicaid dental reimbursements and a glut of established dentists in wealthier, populated areas are among the reasons why.
UC Santa Cruz |

Lick's Automated Planet Finder: first robotic telescope for planet hunters

In its first months of operation, the APF has found two new planetary systems, giving astronomers a taste of planetary riches to come.
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California Magazine |

Philosophy's popularity soars

Discipline's devotees find it’s more than ‘an interesting path to poverty.’
UCLA |

Students use alternative spring break to grow

There are plenty of UCLA students who are spending the week of spring break enhancing their suntans and frolicking at traditional meccas of fun to decompress. But spring break also represents another kind of opportunity for students who have opted to travel…
UC Santa Cruz |

Exxon Valdez oil spill was a turning point for biologist

On the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Terrie Williams reflects on the lessons learned and continues her work training responders for the next oil spill disaster.
Artist's rendering, Thirty Meter Telescope
UC Newsroom |

Thirty Meter Telescope will be a most powerful eye on the sky

UC places a financial stake in the development and operation of the Thirty Meter Telescope, which will be the largest, most powerful telescope of its kind.
UC Davis |

Plankton make scents for seabirds and a cooler planet

Top predators of the Southern Ocean are tied both to the health of the ocean ecosystem and to global climate regulation through a mutual relationship with phytoplankton.