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UC Newsroom |

Coming of age in a warming world: How UC students are turning climate anxiety into action

How do UC students think about their futures, knowing that the climate they were born into will probably look a whole lot different than the one they grow old in?

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UC Newsroom |

A UC degree launched Miguel Tamayo’s life as an aerospace engineer. Here’s how he paid for college.

Hear how one student paid for a UC education. 

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UC Newsroom |

The University of California adopts new, stronger climate action goals

The new goals prioritize direct emission reductions, limit the use of carbon offsets and align UC’s climate goals with those of the state of California.
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UC Newsroom |

‘Stop-outs’ get a fresh start: How UC is helping students return to complete their degrees

The UC Reengagement Consortium is making strides in helping students who left school without getting their degrees return to finish what they started.
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UC Riverside |

UC Riverside releases a new avocado tree to the world marketplace

The “Luna UCR™” variety is the result of more than a half century of tree breeding.
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UC San Diego |

Gulf War Illness caused by mitochondrial dysfunction, not inflammation

UC San Diego scientists contest longstanding hypothesis about mysterious illness affecting Gulf War veterans, providing first direct evidence that symptoms are driven by impaired mitochondria.
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UC Santa Cruz |

UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Coastal Climate Resilience awards over $4.6 million to support California coastal projects

The projects will support efforts to fight climate change in coastal communities across California and beyond. Funds for these grant programs came from the California State Budget Act of 2022-23.
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UCSF |

How a rare dementia transforms patients into artists

UCSF-led research reveals brain changes that promote visual creativity.
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UC Berkeley |

Water from thin air: Hand-held water harvester powered by sunlight could combat water scarcity

Researchers have designed an extreme-weather proven, hand-held device that can extract and convert water molecules from the air into drinkable water using only ambient sunlight as its energy source.
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UC Newsroom |

UC campuses best in nation for combining quality and affordability, Money says

Money magazine’s 2023 Best Colleges in America list finds all nine UC undergraduate campuses offer exceptional value.
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UC Riverside |

Widely consumed vegetable oil leads to an unhealthy gut

Diets high in soybean oil decrease endocannabinoids in the gut and can lead to colitis, a new study finds.
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UC San Francisco |

Why wait times in the emergency room are so long in California

The number of emergency departments has fallen, while demand for acute care has gone up.
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California Magazine |

Dacher Keltner is awe-inspired, and you should be too

After the death of his brother, the Berkeley psychologist found new meaning in life.
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UC Irvine |

Wake-up call

Researchers at UC Irvine’s Sleep and Cognition Lab dive deep in search of health-sleep links.