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UC Newsroom |

Next up for UC’s Class of 2025? Building California’s brilliant future

From jobs to graduate school to giving back to the communities they came from, UC’s latest crop of graduates has big plans to make a difference.

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Is college worth it? For University of California grads, the data offers an undeniable ‘Yes!’

Not only do large percentages of UC alums enter the workforce with no student debt, but their degrees deliver an array of economic and social benefits both for themselves and their communities.

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Zev Gartner
UC San Francisco |

Building human breast tissue, cell by cell

Zev Gartner's innovative work in 3-D tissue generation has earned him a spot on Popular Science's 'Brilliant 10' list of 2015.
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UC San Diego |

Tiny motors rev up to tackle rising carbon dioxide levels

Machines much smaller than the width of a human hair could one day help clean up ocean pollution.
man in bed with cell phone
UC Berkeley |

Mobile app would bring earthquake early warning to all

How an early-warning system would work in practice, beginning with the first blaring alarm from a cellphone: 'Earthquake! Drop, cover and hold on! Strong shaking expected!'
Students walk across UC Irvine campus
UC Newsroom |

First-generation students hear from faculty who have ‘been there’

As thousands of first-generation college students arrive on campus, UC Irvine faculty are helping them feel a sense of belonging by sharing their own experiences as being their family's first collegians.
Rice
UC Riverside |

Secret unlocked to rice seed survival when underwater

UC Riverside geneticists are members of international research team that identified AG1, a gene that controls sugar availability.
Wine
UC Davis |

Premium-minded consumers split wine market, wine execs say

Survey of wine executives to be reported Sept. 22; wine professionals also surveyed.
UC Berkeley |

What the Inuit can tell us about omega-3 fats and paleo diets

The Inuit and their Siberian ancestors have special genetic mutations that help them partly counteract the effects of a diet high in marine mammal fat — and most of us don't. 
students and instructor
UC Newsroom |

New York Times calls UC an ‘upward-mobility machine’

Six campuses in top seven spots of College Access Index, which ranks economic diversity.
Michael O'Gorman (left) and Matthew Raiford at Farm to Fork.
UC Santa Cruz |

Annual Farm to Fork event honors past and future farmers

UC Santa Cruz event has supported more than 150 ecological horticulture apprentices through scholarships and subsidized meal plans.
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UC Newsroom |

UC campuses, programs recognized for diversity

Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award, 'Bright Spot' in Hispanic education highlight UC's commitment to supporting diversity on campuses and in society.
UC San Diego |

Hearts build new muscle with this simple protein patch

Successful in mice and pigs, researchers hope to test the patch in human clinical trials as early as 2017.
solar thermal technology
UC Newsroom |

UC ranked among top innovative universities

Reuters places UC system 13th in its top 100 list of most innovative universities around the globe.