Power of 10: News from UC campuses
UC Berkeley Nobel Laureate George Smoot, who is also a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientist, was appointed director of a new cosmology institute in South Korea that will collaborate with UC.
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UC Davis rice geneticist Pamela Ronald and UC Riverside's Julia Bailey-Serres were awarded the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Discovery Award in recognition of their collaboration in developing new rice varieties that can withstand flooding.
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UC Irvine had the highest number of researchers named in 2008 as American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows. The 20 scientists and engineers represent the largest group of any single U.S. university or institution
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UCLA chemical engineers have genetically modified E. coli bacteria to produce a higher-density biofuel that is less volatile and corrosive than the commercially available ethanol biofuel.
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UC Merced environmental engineer Elliott Campbell is part of an international group of researchers who developed a new photosynthesis measurement method to track how climate warming affects plant absorption of carbon dioxide.
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UC Riverside art history professor Conrad Rudolph created a digital reconstruction of The Mystic Ark, a lost 12th century French mural. His 15-foot-wide reconstruction from medieval manuscripts was displayed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
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UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography will build a new laboratory to study fragile marine ecosystems thanks to a $12 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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UC San Francisco School of Dentistry received a $24.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to prevent early childhood tooth decay in low-income, high-risk populations.
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UC Santa Barbara researchers led a U.S.-U.K. study on public attitudes about nanotechnologies. Subjects in both countries were more accepting of the tiny technologies when applied to energy rather than health treatments.
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UC Santa Cruz in a study from NASA, was rated the top-ranking university in the country for the quality of its research in astronomy and astrophysics.
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