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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 Berkeley Greater Good Science Center |

7 ways to have a healthier relationship with stress

A new book by renowned UCSF stress researcher Elissa Epel explains how stress affects our bodies at the cellular level and how to manage it better.
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UC Santa Barbara |

Resistance is futile

A new antibiotic cures superbugs without bacterial resistance.
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UCLA Magazine |

Is kindness contagious?

That’s what UCLA’s Bedari Kindness Institute wanted to find out. The answer may surprise you.
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UC Newsroom |

17 UC faculty awarded 2023 Sloan Research fellowships

The prestigious award is granted to promising researchers likely to emerge as the next generation of scientific leaders.
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UCLA Newsroom |

UCLA roboticist Dennis Hong rolls out his robot posse in a TEDx talk

“Openness, freedom, trust, having fun and truly believing what you can do to change the world” guide Hong’s new creations.
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UC San Diego |

Don’t know CPR? There’s an app for that, thanks to a UC San Diego Health doctor

A new free app arms people with a real-time tool for opioid overdoses and unconscious victims.
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UC Irvine |

Writing for FLOTUS

UC Irvine student Steven Gong turned lessons from the ‘Writing for POTUS’ course into a speechwriting internship in the Office of the First Lady.
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UC San Francisco |

Early interventions are best for kids with obesity, new guidelines say

The first new clinical guidance in 15 years for treating obesity and overweight in children stresses intensive lifestyle changes while acknowledging barriers.
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UC Riverside |

Why California will inevitably shake like Turkey

A fault like the San Andreas produced the tragic earthquake in Syria and Turkey.
Ingrid Johnson, founder of CAAP, talks to a student taking a test in a classroom
UC Newsroom |

‘Developing scholars of the African Diaspora’: Meet the parents creating a pipeline of academic excellence

Run by a dedicated and long-standing community of Southern California volunteers, the Council of African American Parents has an extraordinary record of turning out college graduates, most of them from the University of California.
Chinyere Nwonye, Elliot Woods and Jendalyn Coulter
UCLA |

In reparations debate, UCLA students help amplify Black Californians’ voices

A small team of UCLA graduate students traveled the state, heard from more than 900 residents.
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UCSF Magazine |

Trip therapy

Could psychedelics become mainstream medicines?