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UC Newsroom |

UC medical school graduates take on Central Valley’s health care crisis

More than 700 medical students are earning their M.D. from a UC medical school this spring. The vast majority of these newly minted doctors — 73 percent — will stay in California for their residency training.

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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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Steve Knapp, UC Davis' new strawberry breeder, checks out the campus strawberry greenhouse.
UC Davis |

UC Davis and California Strawberry Commission settle lawsuit, set new direction

As part of renewed commitment to a public breeding program that creates new varieties for California’s strawberry farmers, UC Davis announces hiring of new breeder for Strawberry Breeding Program.
The water study is part of a five-year project investigating whether community-based intervention can help prevent childhood obesity.
ANR |

Tapping into healthy drink choices

Low-quality water in rural immigrant communities could be prompting kids to drink sugary beverages.
Sat Pannu
Lawrence Livermore Lab |

DARPA taps Lawrence Livermore Lab to restore touch to amputees

Lab will join collaborative research team that intends to build the world’s first neural system to enable naturalistic feeling and movements in prosthetic hands.
The Google Glass app and illuminator allow researchers unit to analyze chlorophyll concentration in a leaf without harming the plant.
UCLA |

Google Glass app helps scientists analyze plants' health in seconds

Scientists from UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute have developed a Google Glass app that, when paired with a handheld device, enables the wearer to quickly analyze the health of a plant without damaging it.
Lawrence Berkeley Lab |

Startup promises safe lithium batteries

Venture capital backs company — co-founded by a Berkeley Lab scientist —developing a battery using a nonflammable electrolyte.
carbon dioxide injection well
UC Berkeley |

One-two punch could make western U.S. carbon-negative

Combining biomass electricity production with carbon capture could enable power generators to store more carbon than they emit.
UC Davis |

Tobacco-smoking parents increase diabetes risk for babies

Children exposed to tobacco smoke from their parents while in the womb are up to two to three times more likely to develop the disease.
UC Merced |

Gift establishes UC Merced Presidential Chair in the Humanities

Anonymous $500,000 donation, matched by UC president’s new fund, will establish $1 million endowment to provide leadership and vision for UC Merced research.
UCLA alumni Rabbi Philip Posner, Robert Farrell, Helen Singleton and Robert Singleton
UCLA |

A salute to UCLA Freedom Riders and their history-making journey

Sixteen civil rights activists — all UCLA alumni — challenged segregation in the South in 1961 as Freedom Riders.
UC San Francisco |

Why do some targeted cancer drugs lose effectiveness?

Protein may be to blame; study suggests combination therapies could overcome drug resistance.
Roger Bales
UC Newsroom |

UC awards $23 million to multicampus research collaborations

Grants will go to a diverse array of projects, from developing an implantable device that could correct memory impairment to an effort to help California better manage its water resources.
patient gets immunization shot
UC Newsroom |

UC plans to require vaccinations for incoming students

Incoming students will be screened for TB and vaccinated for measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, meningococcus, tetanus and whooping cough, under a plan set to take effect in 2017.