In the nation's most extensive such survey, UC will ask students, faculty and staff about their experiences with diversity and inclusion at work and on campus.

UCSF joins forces with FDA to find risks before drugs reach patients.

Meng So's life experiences inform his work as UC Berkeley’s Undocumented Student Program coordinator, the only position of its kind at any university in the country.

Temporary employees, from landscapers to programmers, are more likely to receive government assistance such as food stamps or Medicaid.

People who believe they are better than others, even when they aren’t, are given a higher place in the social ladder.

Laid-off workers are getting hands-on training in microfabrication at Berkeley’s Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center through a collaborative technical-education initiative with Oakland’s Laney College.

Triclosan, found in hand soaps and other products, is shown to hinder muscle contraction in animal models.

Doctors push the medical boundaries to get "unacceptable" candidate back on the transplant list and offer her a new chance at life.

One way to reduce the deaths and disease from smoking is to show farmers how to change their choice of crops. A UCLA researcher has initiated successful crop substitution project in tobacco-rich China.

Despite an extreme weather year, overall clarity at Lake Tahoe improved in 2011.