Research at the University of California’s campus and national laboratories receives substantial support from a number of federal agencies. The following publications, issued quarterly in an agency-by-agency rotation, highlight some of the discoveries made possible by this funding.

National Institutes of Health at UC
Spring 2002: UC's NIH Research Tops $1 Billion; Synthetic Cartilage; Autism; Retraining the Spine; Marine Pharmaceuticals

Winter 2000: NIH Funding Facts; Malaria: The Forgotten Killer; Preventing Premature Births; Guam: The Puzzle of Parkinson's

Autumn 1998: NIH Funding Facts; Defanging Staphylococcus Aureus; Alzheimer's Disease in an Aging Population; Cancer and Nutrition: UCSD's WHEL Study

National Science Foundation at UC
Spring 2004:  UC earns record levels of NSF research support; theobroma; research internships; adaptive optics; Scripps; traveling math

Summer 2001: NSF Funding Facts; Exploring the World at Nanoscale; Dark Matter; Mapping the Corona Project

Summer 2000: NSF Funding Facts; Milagro: The Fingerprints of Gamma Ray Bursts; The Myth of Polynesian Paradise; Does Signing Your Language Rewire Your Synapses?

National Endowment for the Humanities at UC
Spring 2001: NEH Funding Facts; California's Hidden Local History; Humanities Research Institute; Chicano Posters

Spring 1998: NEH Funding at UC; The Mark Twain Papers and Project; California Newspaper Project; Fowler Museum of Cultural History

NASA at UC
Winter 2002: Major research awards, how did life start? documenting Amazonia, space psychology, TIGRE - new gamma ray telescope

Autumn 2000: NASA Funding Facts; Remote sensing comes of age; What lies under the clouds of Titan?; SOFIA Takes-off

Department of Agriculture at UC
Summer 2003: Fighting childhood obesity; fighting Pierce's disease and sudden oak death; breeding resistant grapes; salt-tolerant genes; sustaining California's agriculture.

Department of Defense at UC
Autumn 2001: DOD Funding Facts; Pinnipeds and Noise Pollution; Visual Cognition; Robot Soldiers

Spring 1999: DOD Funding Facts; Mighty Morphing Computers; Defending Against Breast Cancer; Optoelectronics at UCSB

Department of Energy at UC
Summer 2002: Clouds and Global Warming; Fusion Reactors; Diagnosing Cancer with Lasers; Fuel Cells and Future Cars; Decoding Plant Signals

Spring 2000: DOE Funding Facts; Hydrogen: A Renewable Fuel for a New Millennium; Deconstructing Tuberculosis; Good Ozone/Bad Ozone

Contact
For more information about these publications, contact Michael Barnes, Office of Research.