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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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UC awarded stem cell grants

UC researchers received three grants totaling more than $12 million in funding from the state’s stem cell agency to develop stem cell treatments for Huntington’s disease, spina bifida and chronic diabetic wounds.
UC Davis match day
UC Newsroom |

Medical students celebrate Match Day

On March 20, more than 650 UC medical students were among the nearly 17,000 seniors at traditional U.S. medical schools who learned where they were matched for their residencies.
wax cylinder (early audio recording)
UC Santa Barbara |

Speaking in the vernacular

Library of Congress adds Vernacular Wax Cylinder Recordings collection to the National Recording Registry.
UC San Francisco |

UCSF to study benefits of personal approach to breast cancer screening

Research team has won a five-year, $14.1 million award to investigate whether a personalized approach to breast cancer screening is as safe and effective as annual mammograms.
Delta smelt
UC Davis |

New funding for endangered Delta smelt 'refuge'

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awards nearly $2.5 million per year for four years for UC Davis lab's work for the species.
UC Davis |

Ag-tech startup helps farmers analyze water use

Tule, a new business formed with the strength of UC Davis research behind it, was one of 14 startups launched last year with UC Davis support.
The first "bent," a cross beam, posts, and supports joined by wooden pegs, is hoisted into place by a crane early Saturday morning while others, already assembled, await their turn on the new barn's concrete slab.
UC Santa Cruz |

Historic hay barn rises again

Over a weekend, volunteers joined professionals to raise the timber-framed superstructure for the re-creation of the Cowell Ranch hay barn, which will become a center for sustainability programs at UC Santa Cruz.
Jupiter
UC Santa Cruz |

Wandering Jupiter cleared path for our unusual solar system

Scientists say the red giant swept clear the inner solar system, resulting in the formation of a planetary system unlike any other astronomers have yet found.
UC Irvine |

Jack Peltason, emeritus chancellor and president, 1923-2015

Founding faculty member and second chancellor at UC Irvine never lost interest in learning.
UC Newsroom |

Welcome to UC

Congratulations to our newly admitted University of California students!
Janet Napolitano, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Sam Hawgood
UC San Francisco |

U.S. health secretary lauds promise of ‘precision medicine’

Researchers at UCSF Medical Center may have a potential ally in the White House, as they develop targeted therapies for diseases like cancer.
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California Magazine |

Love national parks? Thank UC Berkeley

A century ago, Cal alumni had a major influence on both launching and maintaining the National Park system.