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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 Riverside |

Professor hacks smartphone through common app

Weakness in the Android operating system was exploited through a very common app. Windows, iOS may be vulnerable too.
UCSD professor Hovav Shacham with body scanner
UC San Diego |

Study shows how easily weapons can be smuggled past body scanners

UC San Diego and other researchers find several loopholes in full-body X-ray scanners once used by the TSA and still used in courthouses, jails, and other government security checkpoints around the country.
UC Newsroom |

Alum, postdoc among game-changing young innovators

MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 recognizes professor, telecom developer with ties to UC Santa Barbara and UC Berkeley.
Chelsea Arnold
UC Newsroom |

Drying Sierra meadows could worsen California drought

Weather-related changes threaten key natural regulator of the region's water flow.
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UC San Diego |

Virtual reality guides those whose memory is failing

Navigation system helps diagnose, monitor and train patients with cognitive decline.
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Greater Good Science Center |

What makes a happy parent?

Are parents really less happy than non-parents, as many recent books and studies suggest? New research finds that the truth is surprising and complicated.
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UC Davis and UC Merced |

California has given away rights to far more water than it has

Researchers reveal state is overextended and is using complicated and outdated water policies.
UC San Francisco |

Antibacterial soap poses hormone risk to health workers

High levels of triclosan — a hormone disruptor — in antibacterial soap may pose a hazard to hospital workers, who must wash hands often.
Lourdes Morales
UC Santa Cruz |

Grad student unites personal passion, programming skills to help others

Undaunted by her own impaired vision, Lourdes Morales is developing computer software to help blind people format documents.
UC Newsroom |

Alum keeps Berkeley pantry churning to feed student parents

As a single mom and undergrad student, Koko Mulder founded UC Berkeley's pantry to help non-traditional students like herself stretch their food dollars. Now a campus staffer, she's still at the pantry's helm.
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UC Berkeley |

‘Getting-by girls’ straddle gap between academic winners, losers

A new study spotlights a high school subculture that has made an art of slacking, and may be destined to perpetuate the nation’s struggling lower-middle class.
UC Newsroom |

9 UC campuses ranked among world’s best universities

UC places highly in Academic Ranking of World Universities, which focuses on faculty and research quality.