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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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Domenico di Michelino Dante Divine Comedy Painting Duomo Cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore Church Florence Italy. Painting created 1465
UC Santa Cruz |

Lessons from Dante in a time of COVID-19

Reflecting on the poem’s renewed relevance on the 700th anniversary of its completion.
E-cigarette held up by a blurred out teenager
UC San Diego |

Youth using e-cigarettes 3 times as likely to become daily cigarette smokers

Age at first use and number of tobacco products consumed also increases addiction risk.
Depressed man in a mask
UC Berkeley |

In shaky times, focus on past successes, if overly anxious, depressed

Focusing on what you get right, instead of what you get wrong, can help your judgment if anxious or depressed, a new study says.
Arianna Long portrait
UC Irvine |

Arianna’s long path to the stars

An astrophysicist faces the universe’s darkness with help from those around her and from the stars above her.
The Earth with flames on it
UCLA |

Greta is right, researchers say

A global team of scientists suggests extraordinary action on sustainability is necessary soon to avoid a dark future.
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UCSF |

How worried should you be about the new coronavirus variant?

UCSF infectious disease expert Charles Chiu on how the new variant emerged, whether available vaccines will still work and what we need to do now.
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
UCLA |

Confronting pervasive segregation

New report on status of Black students urges incoming Biden administration to confront pervasive segregation.
Student and grandparent looking at a computer
UC Davis |

Survey finds strain among high school seniors in pandemic uncertainty

New research details the high level of uncertainty and financial stress experienced by California high school seniors weighing college during a pandemic.
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UCSF |

New intervention for childhood trauma treats the whole family

When traumas occur, experts now believe it’s most effective to treat the whole family. A new intervention will explore this idea over a three-year period.
Man with hands over his mouth
UC Riverside |

Developing a drug for stuttering

The UC Riverside School of Medicine will serve as a lead site for a clinical trial on stuttering.
Astronauts and a facility on Mars illustration
UC Irvine |

Making methane on Mars

How physicists are making a return trip from the Red Planet a possibility.
2021 on a surgical face mask
UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center |

Why 2021 is the year of the ‘messy middle’ — and how New Year’s resolutions can help

Ask yourself these five questions when setting 2021 goals.