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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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diapered baby
UC Riverside |

The diaper detective

Team of engineering students develop an inexpensive, versatile pad to detect medical problems in infants.
UC President Napolitano at Doctors Academy event
UC Newsroom |

Napolitano encourages aspiring doctors in Fresno

UC president encourages high school students to pursue their dreams and help address physician shortage in the San Joaquin Valley.
Janet Napolitano and community college officials
UC Newsroom |

Napolitano meets with community college leaders

Officials identify steps that would bring transfer students to UC from a broader range of schools around the state.
Melanoma drug Keytruda in action
UCLA |

FDA approves new melanoma drug

Drug that turns on the immune system to fight deadly cancers is a ‘game changer,’ says study’s principal investigator.
Peter Homyak collects lake sediment core
UC Riverside |

Acidity on decline in Sierra Nevada lakes

Research team did long-term measurements of lake chemistry, studied sediment cores from the lakes.
UC Davis |

Breast vs. bottle feeding in rhesus monkeys

Infants receiving different diets after birth develop distinct immune systems.
UC Irvine |

Kids’ health suffers when parents go to jail

Study finds incarceration more detrimental than divorce or death of mother, father.
Derek Boling and Tim Groeling
UCLA |

Archive unveils digitized speeches from turbulent Sixties

UCLA’s communication studies department has posted full speeches given on campus between 1962 and 1973, featuring major figures of the era such as Cesar Chavez, Lenny Bruce, Jane Fonda and Eldridge Cleaver.
trees in Sierra Nevada
UC Irvine, UC Merced |

Warmer climate means greener mountains, less water for Californians

Sierra Nevada freshwater runoff could drop 26 percent by 2100, caused by increased plant growth at higher elevations.
UC Irvine |

A look at labor

Researchers' revelations on the work we do, and how we perform it.
Robert Heinlein
UC Riverside |

Sci-fi fan photographer leaves collection to UC Riverside

Jay Kay Klein gift includes thousands of author, fan photos and endowment to support Eaton Collection.
angry young girl
UC Santa Barbara |

The universal face of anger

You know that look of fury. Researchers now believe it's part of our basic biology as humans.