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UC Berkeley |

UC Berkeley alumnus Gary Ruvkun shares 2024 Nobel Prize for discovering microRNA

Ruvkun obtained his B.A. in biophysics from UC Berkeley in 1973.

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Student therapist Jason Fly
UC Santa Barbara |

A healing space: Supporting racially-informed therapy training

A Santa Barbara Foundation grant underscores the community need for racially-informed therapy services.
A man looks over the dry Salton Sea
UC Riverside |

Why the Salton Sea is turning into toxic dust

A new study identifies the cause of the lake’s water loss.
Gorilla mom and infant in the forest. Mom is eating
UC Davis |

Chew on this: Personalized health care for mountain gorillas

Chewed plants are helping Gorilla Doctors and UC Davis veterinarians provide personalized health care to wild, endangered mountain gorillas in East Africa.
Michelle Brubaker holding up a survivor sign in Hawaii
UC San Diego |

What I’ve learned as a breast cancer survivor

During October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a breast cancer survivor and UC San Diego Health employee shares her personal experiences from the moment of diagnosis and receiving life-saving care, to the important lessons she has learned along the journey.
View of Yosemite Valley
UC Berkeley |

How old is Yosemite Valley?

The age of Yosemite Valley has been hard to pin down. UC Berkeley geologists now say it’s younger than we thought.
UC San Diego campus sidewalk lined with trees one with bright red leaves
UC Newsroom |

Alumna Katherine S. Newman appointed as provost of the University of California system

The University of California Board of Regents today (Oct. 18) approved Katherine S. Newman, a nationally renowned academic leader and scholar, as UC Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs.
Priti Krishtel
UC Newsroom |

Six UC alums awarded 2022 MacArthur ‘genius grant’ fellowships

Fellows are selected for their exceptional talent and creativity — and the promise of even greater things to come.
Young Asian man holds head in hand in front of his reflection at work
UC Berkeley Haas |

Depressed people are just more realistic, right? Not so, says UC Berkeley study

Depressive realism has held sway in science and popular culture for decades, but a rosier outlook may be overdue.
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UCLA |

There’s a lot of hate in the world. UCLA’s scholars are asking why and what can be done

The new Initiative to Study Hate kicks off with 23 diverse projects.
On a sunny day SurfUp co-founder Chris Hissom stands next to one of the four SurfUp surfboard racks currently available outdoors in San Diego
UC San Diego |

Surf’s up in San Diego, thanks to alumni-led startup

Surfing in San Diego just got a whole lot easier, thanks to a team of UC San Diego alumni bringing app-based, accessible board rental right where it’s needed.
Someone with a cap for monitoring brain activity on their head plays a video game
UC San Francisco |

Video games offer the potential of ‘experiential medicine’

After a decade of work, scientists at UC San Francisco’s Neuroscape Center have developed a suite of video game interventions that improve key aspects of cognition in aging adults.
UC regent José Hernández speaks with Yvette Gullatt
UC Newsroom |

Persistence was key to UC regent and NASA astronaut José Hernández’s achievement of lifelong dream

Hernández shares what he has learned from a life that is the stuff of movies. (In fact, Amazon is turning it into a feature film!)