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A blind date with science

UC San Diego

January 15, 2015

'M*A*S*H' actor Alan Alda shows scientists a better way to communicate with the public.

Long-lost MLK recording found

A long-lost audio recording of a 1965 speech at UCLA by the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. has been unearthed on campus.

UCLA

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Berkeley Lab’s Top 50 game-changing technologies for defeating poverty

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

January 14, 2015

Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies produces first-of-its-kind blueprint for sustainable global development.

Helicopter parenting better for pets than for kids, study suggests

UC Berkeley

January 14, 2015

Overprotectiveness is an advantage when rearing dogs and cats, according to study from UC Berkeley and California State University, East Bay.

UC creates President’s Sustainability Student Fellowship/Internship program

UCOP will fund student awards in support of UC’s Carbon Neutrality Initiative and other university sustainability efforts.

Average student debt burden in each state

By this measure, California's low ranking is a very good thing.

Huffington Post

Here Is The Average Student Debt Burden In Each State

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What might be missing from MyPlate? Water

UC nutrition experts maintain that adding H2O will help curb our sugar intake as well as quench our thirst.

NPR

What Might Be Missing From MyPlate? Water

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Small volcanic eruptions explain warming hiatus

Lawrence Livermore Lab

January 8, 2015

How? Volcanoes cool the atmosphere because of the sulfur dioxide that is expelled during eruptions.

The ants come marching in

UC Newsroom

January 9, 2015

UC researchers are studying ways to control the ubiquitous Argentine ant — an invasive non-native that's worn out its welcome.

Diverse pool of Californians apply to UC in record numbers

Data collected from the application cycle that closed Nov. 30 show that 193,873 students applied for admission to at least one UC campus – 158,146 of them as freshmen and the remainder as transfer students.

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