Power of 10: News from UC campuses
UC Berkeley researchers found that multicultural friendships reduced anxiety for both white and Latino students who were previously prone to racial bias before being paired up for the study.
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UC Davis emeritus English professor Gary Snyder won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which honors the lifetime achievements of living poets. Snyder, a Pulitzer Prize winner, started writing in the 1950s during the Beat movement.
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UC Irvine broke ground on the $66.6 million Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center that will serve as a hub for the campus stem cell biology program and Southern California researchers working in this field.
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UCLA's Mattel Children's Hospital launched a nanopediatrics program, one of the first in the world to study the use of nanotechnology in diagnosing and treating children.
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UC Merced School of Engineering signed an agreement with South Korea's Chungbuk University to exchange faculty and students and engage in joint research.
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UC Riverside students are tutoring in five Pomona Unified School District schools as part of a $4.9 million U.S. Department of Education grant to curb high school dropout rates and encourage kids to pursue higher education.
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UC San Diego engineers are working on a wearable monitoring device that would automatically detect injuries and administer medication to soldiers on the battlefield, enhancing the chances of survival.
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UC Santa Barbara scientists, working with the University of Utah, are testing a vaccine against salmonella, a bacteria that causes 1.5 million cases of food and blood poisoning each year.
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UC San Francisco neurology professor Michael Weiner has a grant to improve magnetic resonance imaging technology to better diagnose diseases such as Alzheimer's.
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UC Santa Cruz psychologist Maureen Callanan is partnering with UC Berkeley paleontologists to create a mammoth exhibit for the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose. She will use the display to study the ways children learn in a museum setting.
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