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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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Will Madrigal
UC Riverside |

UC Riverside is the first UC campus to teach the Cahuilla language

Students in the four-class series also study Cahuilla society and culture
Two researchers and a heron in a ditch
UC Merced |

Artificial intelligence is for the birds

Researchers are upgrading their migratory tracking capacity by creating a model to recognize bird calls.
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UC Newsroom |

8 things that are new this election

Voting is safer and easier than ever in California this year. Learn how you can make your ballot count.
Spider in a hand and a scared woman in the background
UC Riverside |

And now, the winner of the Ig Nobel Prize ...

Richard Vetter's work on how spiders terrorize those who study them nets him a parody Nobel.
Charlie Townes with Reinhard Genzel
UC Berkeley |

UC Berkeley played big role in Nobel Prize-winning work

Reinhard Genzel realized his mentor Charles Townes’ dream of exploring the center of the Milky Way on his way to his own Nobel Prize.
Doudna reacts with surprise to her win
UC Berkeley |

Jennifer Doudna wins 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry

Jennifer Doudna, UC Berkeley and UCSF professor and Berkeley Lab faculty scientist, shares the prize with Emmanuelle Charpentier for their discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 as a tool for making targeted changes to the genome.
Woman sneezing on a couch
UCLA |

Is it the flu, a cold or COVID-19?

Infectious disease specialists share how to tell the difference.
Andrea Ghez
UCLA and UC Berkeley |

UCLA and UC Berkeley faculty share the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics

Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Genzel will share half the 2020 Nobel in physics for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy.
Charles Rice at desk
UC Davis |

UC Davis alum Charles Rice wins Nobel Prize

Now professor at The Rockefeller University, he shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
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UC Newsroom |

Apply now for UC’s Startup Innovation Challenge

Winners will take home a $50K cash prize and get to network with industry leaders.
UC San Diego students at a 2018 voter registration drive.
UC Newsroom |

Tips for tackling the November ballot

Find resources for learning about what's on the ballot.
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UC Davis |

Which type of face covering works best?

New UC Davis research compares surgical, N95 and homemade cloth masks.