Power of 10: News from UC campuses
UC Berkeley kicked off the Campaign for Berkeley with a fund-raising goal of $3 billion. Already nearly $1.3 billion has been raised in private gifts and pledges to support faculty, students and research. Read more >
UC Davis religious studies professor Flagg Miller was the first academic to study 1,500 tapes taken from Osama bin Laden's Afghanistan compound in 2001. His research offers insights into the evolution of al Qaeda. Read more >
UC Irvine finished construction on it new University Hospital four months early. It replaces the main hospital built in 1960. Patients will begin moving in early in 2009. Read more >
UCLA astronomer Andrea Ghez was named a MacArthur Fellow for her studies of black holes and the evolution of galaxies. The annual "genius award" comes with a $500,000 research prize. Read more >
UC Merced established an office to finalize plans for a School of Medicine to address a doctor shortage in the Central Valley. Maria Pallavicini, dean of the School of Natural Sciences, has been additionally named vice provost for health sciences. Read more >
UC Riverside ranked among the Top 10 most diverse national universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings. The campus came in 5th with a diversity index of 0.69. The closer an institution ranked to 1.0 the more diverse its student body. No. 1 in diversity is Rutgers with 0.74. Read more >
UC San Diego School of Medicine will lead a $60 million nationwide study aimed at preventing and treating post-traumatic stress and brain injury. The Department of Defense is funding the five-year project. Read more >
UC San Francisco moved one step closer to breaking ground for a new Mission Bay hospital complex when UC Regents unanimously approved the project. Read more >
UC Santa Barbara will join UCLA researchers to lead the UC Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, the nation's first large-scale study of the potential ecological effects of nanomaterials. Read more >
UC Santa Cruz researchers are developing tecWave, a dictionary that will allow computer users to click on a word they don't know and see the definition and a picture pop up. The vocabulary-building technology will aid both struggling readers and English learners. Read more >