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UC Newsroom |

UC medical school graduates take on Central Valley’s health care crisis

More than 700 medical students are earning their M.D. from a UC medical school this spring. The vast majority of these newly minted doctors — 73 percent — will stay in California for their residency training.

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UC Newsroom |

Transfer students triumph in the Class of 2024

Meet 10 first-gen graduates who started their journey to UC at a California community college.

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Woman with long dark hair, Shyla Raghav, standing in front of a yellow field of wildflowers
UC Irvine Magazine |

A captain for the planet

Alumna Shyla Raghav is a leading global advocate on climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Senior woman with gray hair and blue eyes looking ahead straight at the camera
UC San Diego |

Biological age, not birthdate, may reveal healthy longevity

What if we had a way to measure how fast we were aging that could predict our odds of living a long and healthy life?
Sister Simone, President Biden and a woman in a Navy officer holding the Presidential Medal of Freedom
UC Davis |

‘There she was leading nuns on a bus’: UC alum receives nation’s highest civilian honor

President Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to UC Davis Law graduate Sister Simone Campbell.
Warren Hoburg in blue spacesuit in front of an aircraft
UC Berkeley Engineering |

To infinity and beyond: UC alum becomes spacecraft pilot

Astronaut Warren "Woody" Hoburg will head to the International Space Station with the SpaceX Crew-6 mission in spring 2023.
empty supermarket shelves
UC San Diego |

Black households suffer the most from rising inflation rates

New research is the first to provide race-specific data on the impacts of inflation.
2 surgeons performing a cardiac surgery through machines
UC San Francisco |

UCSF performs first robotic cardiac surgery in San Francisco

The innovation means shorter hospital stays and fewer complications.
Students gather outside on a sunny day among the redwoods at UC Santa Cruz
UC Newsroom |

University leaders present ambitious plan to help thousands more Californians earn a degree

UC leaders today (July 21) presented a plan to increase enrollment by 23,000 students over the next eight years.
Hands injecting something into a plant leaf
UC Riverside |

How stressed out plants produce their own aspirin

The discovery could protect plants from climate change.
A voting rights sign held up in front of the U.S. Capitol
UCLA |

UCLA Law professor launches effort to protect the integrity of elections

Richard Hasen will lead the Safeguarding Democracy Project, which will bring together a diverse group of experts and scholars.
Bearded Jason Momoa in Western clothes on the set of his new movie The Last Manhunt
UC Riverside |

Professor serves as historical consultant to Jason Momoa’s new film ‘The Last Manhunt’

The new film is a Native American love story spun into a tale of “Savage Indian murder” by fear-mongering publications of the day.
Astronomers cheering and gathered together to look at the James Webb Telescope images
UC Santa Cruz |

UC Santa Cruz marvels at the release of the first James Webb Telescope Images

UC Santa Cruz astronomers are leading some of the first research projects to use the powerful new space telescope.
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UCLA |

Asian, Hispanic and Black Californians saw bigger drops in life expectancy than whites during COVID

The findings are another troubling sign of the pandemic’s uneven impact across different communities.