Close up of grapes in a vineyard
UC Newsroom |

How California became a food and wine lover's dream

The little known history of the land of milk and honey.
Salton Sea near sunset
Berkeley Lab |

Balancing a battery-powered future with energy justice

How inclusive research could support communities around California’s Salton Sea.
Medical student and a doctor kneeling over a CPR dummy with the app
UC San Diego |

Don’t know CPR? There’s an app for that, thanks to a UC San Diego Health doctor

A new free app arms people with a real-time tool for opioid overdoses and unconscious victims.
Chinyere Nwonye, Elliot Woods and Jendalyn Coulter
UCLA |

In reparations debate, UCLA students help amplify Black Californians’ voices

A small team of UCLA graduate students traveled the state, heard from more than 900 residents.
A young Black student dances at UC Merced
UC Newsroom |

Celebrate Black History Month with these UC events

View our compilation of virtual events at all UC campuses relating to contemporary and historic Black culture, as well as social justice.
A realistic picture of a wildfire in the woods, as simulated by artificial intelligence
UC Santa Cruz |

Five student teams embark on tech for social good projects

Students are tackling today’s pressing issues, from solar to education, through technological innovation.
UC Office of the President |

UC Investments develops UC’s next generation financial leaders in partnership with TOIGO Foundation

The University of California’s Office of the Chief Investment Officer (UC Investments) today announced a partnership with the Oakland-based Toigo Foundation to fund 20 fellowships for UC graduate students seeking to become tomorrow’s leaders in the world of finance.

Celebrate Year of the Rabbit 2023 with rabbit Chinese painting on the plum blossom background, the Chinese stamp means rabbit and the vertical Chinese couplet means best wishes for the year to come
UC Irvine School of Sciences |

Lunar New Year traditions, old and new

UC Irvine welcomed back its annual celebration in-person this year on Jan. 17.
Gif showing book covers with UCLA ties
UCLA |

How Novel!

How UCLA became a cool setting for a new crop of fiction.
Group of four students walking on campus
UC Newsroom |

Serving the new California: 9 ways UC is working to cultivate a university as diverse as the state itself

Find out how UC is making a strategic effort to cultivate a student, staff and faculty community that reflects the state it serves.
Cabbage white butterfly on lilac-colored flowers
UC Davis |

Bumblebee and butterfly, where are you?

Distinguished professor Art Shapiro’s Beer for a Butterfly Contest is one of two entomology contests at UC Davis to open the new year.
Illustration of a SymphNode interacting with T cells and a tumor
UCLA |

Tiny implantable device designed by UCLA scientists helps kill cancer

A therapeutic sponge the size of a pencil eraser boosted the body’s tumor-fighting response in mice and kept the cancer from returning.
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