News from UC campuses and labs

UC Berkeley swim coach Teri McKeever is going to the 2012 Olympic Games in London as the U.S. women's swim team's head coach. She is the first woman named head coach of a U.S. Olympic swim team.
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UC Davis Health System researchers have a $1.4 million grant to study the quality of care given children in U.S. emergency departments.
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UC Irvine researchers Aileen Anderson and Brian Cummings conducted the studies that are making possible the world's first clinical trial using human neural stem cells to treat chronic spinal cord injury.
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UCLA Medical Center is leading a national study of an experimental "beating heart" technology that could replace the current method of transporting donor hearts for transplants in ice chests.
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UC Merced has a National Science Foundation grant to study faculty recruitment and the status of women in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.
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UC Riverside researchers evaluated electronic cigarettes and found they are unsafe and pose health risks.
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UC San Diego is installing a fuel cell with the capacity to power 2,800 homes and provide 8 percent of the total campus energy needs.
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UC San Francisco is a sponsor of iBioSeminars.org, an organization offering free online lectures and teaching tools featuring Nobel laureates and prominent biologists.
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UC Santa Barbara researchers conclude that if more isn't done to prevent the importation of foreign invasive insects and pathogens, irreplaceable forests will be wiped out, costing taxpayers millions.
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UC Santa Cruz researchers have discovered a vast community of microbes living in the porous rock deep beneath the seafloor, expanding ideas about the ocean carbon cycle.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists have documented that one-third of the airborne lead found at test sites in the San Francisco Bay Area comes from China.
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and UCLA astronomers have discovered a fourth giant planet, seven times the mass of Jupiter, orbiting around a young star 129 light years away.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have developed a way to suppress “blinking” in nanocrystal quantum dots, semiconductor nanoparticles that emit light.
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