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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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Sean Riley and P-32 as a cub
UCLA |

Behind the scenes with a Los Angeles mountain lion expert

Seth Riley, who teaches at UCLA and works for the National Park Service, has tracked 40 mountain lions living in the Santa Monica Mountains.
A thick tangle of the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans (purple) that causes white-nose syndrome in bats is shown here growing on mouse body hair.
UC San Francisco |

Breakthrough in bat-killing fungus could aid crops

UCSF-Brown discovery could help combat fungus that threatens North American bats and poses threat to the agricultural industry.
doctor holding iPad and medicine bottle
UC Merced |

A more secure cloud for mobile users

Encryption system allows smartphone and tablet users to store data in one or multiple clouds without using a lot of a mobile device’s resources.
UC Davis |

Program targets next generation of physicians to advance Latino health

Prep Médico will provide scholarships, mentorship and internship opportunities, intensive language training and more, to expand diversity in medicine.
Co-founder Rafid Sikder and Senior Director of Dining Services David Henry
UC Riverside |

Feeding the needy, one swipe at a time

UC Riverside's Swipes for the Homeless chapter donates $5,000 worth of food to charity.
Trees killed by sudden oak death
UC Berkeley |

Citizen science helps predict spread of sudden oak death

Efforts to predict the emergence and spread of sudden oak death, an infectious disease that kills oaks and other trees, have gotten a big boost from the work of grassroots volunteers.
UC Irvine |

Extended space travel may warp astronauts' brains

Worrisome news for potential missions to Mars: Long-term galactic cosmic ray exposure can cause permanent dementia-like cognitive impairments.
UC Riverside grad students Vicente Nunez and Jessica Diaz, along with graduate dean Joseph Childers, chatted with state Assemblyman Jose Medina about the nature of their research.
UC Newsroom |

Grad students bring their 'secret sauce' to Sacramento

UC’s emerging scientists and scholars share innovation, expertise.
Fisheries need to improve sustainable practices before doing business on global seafood market.
UC Davis |

Sustainability progress should precede seafood market access, researchers urge

A team of UC Davis-led researchers finds that fishery improvement projects need to be fine tuned to ensure that fisheries are delivering on their promises.
A display of healthy foods.
UC Riverside |

Seeds of change

Free public talk at UC Riverside, part of UC Global Food Initiative lecture series, to discuss the campus' sustainable food efforts.
UC Berkeley |

Al Gore: Democracy has been hacked

The former vice president speaks passionately about our political system, the environment and the future of humankind.
Researcher Joy Mench measured the tradeoffs and benefits of alternate methods for housing egg-laying hens.
UC Davis |

Hen-housing study unveils tradeoffs for birds and workers

Alternative housing systems for laying hens present a variety of tradeoffs, according to new UC Davis research.