UC President Napolitano tells Council of Graduate Schools conference that universities need to better explain how graduate students benefit the public good.

'It's surreal and crazy that I'm here even,' says Jirayut Latthivongskorn, who is finishing up his first semester at UCSF.

UC Irvine research: As warm ocean water rises up to melt them, glaciers around the Amundsen Sea are losing half a Mount Everest a year.

The Bay Area Council Economic Institute says 'dramatic declines' in state funding are 'just as harmful' as bureaucratic mandates and distract from the mission of educating and training high-skilled workers.

California HIV/AIDS Research Program supports the CRUSH project, which is tailored to those greatest at risk for HIV infection within Alameda County, and most underreached.

Far from balmy Santa Barbara, Umi Hoshijima is conducting ocean research in Antarctica.

Technology to pre-correct displays on computer screens for vision-impaired users, developed by UC Berkeley engineers in collaboration with MIT colleagues, has been named one of the top 10 “world-changing ideas” of 2014.

But the Public Policy Institute of California's poll also finds residents don't want higher taxes to pay for it.