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Fluorescent seedlings will help a robotic cultivator target weeds in planted fields like this one in the Salinas Valley.

A faster, more accurate robotic cultivator

UC Davis

January 21, 2015

UC Davis is developing a robotic cultivator to control weeds more effectively, affordably and sustainably.

Warmer, drier climate alters forests statewide

UC Berkeley

January 20, 2015

Botanists have compared tree survey data from the 1920s and ’30s with forest service data today. They find a decline in large trees and an increase in the density of small trees in forests throughout the state.

Select advisory commitee approved

UC Regents committee votes to recommend the formation of a select advisory committee that will examine the university’s cost structure and the role of the university.

UC Student Regent Sadia Saiffudin of UC Berkeley, center, flanked by Vanessa Terán, left, of Mixteco/Indígena Community Organizing Project, and Melissa Fontaine, right, of Foodbank of Santa Barbara County, were featured in a panel about food justice.

Food justice at the forefront

UC Santa Barbara and UC Newsroom

January 20, 2015

UC Santa Barbara hosts inaugural California Higher Education Food Summit on food insecurity.

UC takes aim at reducing the time to earn a degree

UC Newsroom

January 20, 2015

Campuses are evaluating undergraduate degree requirements and increasing participation in summer session to help more students finish in four years.

UC making big moves toward carbon neutrality

UC Newsroom

January 20, 2015

Greenhouse gases emissions down to 1990 levels and major steps are initiated to ramp up renewable energy use.

Life after the die-in

UC San Francisco

January 16, 2015

UCSF medical students sparked a national movement when they launched #whitecoats4blacklives to bring attention to racial health care disparities. They also inspired campus leaders to address racism head-on.