Power of 10: News from UC campuses
UC Berkeley Berkeley freshmen and new transfer students in the College of Letters and Science are being asked to send the campus DNA samples. The Bring Your Genes to Cal project is testing for gene variations that affect the impact of nutrition on health and is part of a planned series of fall discussions and classes on personalized medicine.
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UC Davis is expanding undergraduate science research opportunities for community college transfer students through a $1.2 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Students will work in campus labs during summer and winter breaks before entering UC Davis.
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UC Irvine and UC Berkeley researchers studying fetal death rates from 1996 to 2002 have concluded that an increase of male fetus miscarriages may be linked to shock over the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, even among pregnant women with no connection to the event.
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UCLA will build a new research and patient care center focused on restoring and preserving eyesight. The Edie and Lew Wasserman Building will also house neurosurgery and urologic oncology departments.
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UC Merced is part of an international pilot project to test a system for rating green landscape, design, construction and maintenance. The campus was selected to participate because of its strong environmental commitment.
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UC Riverside created the Operation Education Scholarship Program to aid disabled veterans with tutoring, counseling, child care, adaptive equipment and other special needs not covered by the G.I. Bill.
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UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography will operate a new 200-foot-long research ship the U.S. Navy is funding. The yet-to-be-built ship will begin operations in 2015.
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UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley are launching a joint master’s degree program, with a $1.5 million gift from former Intel CEO Andy Grove, to accelerate the translation of medical research into patient care.
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UC Santa Barbara researcher Ira Leifer of the Marine Science Institute served on the government-appointed panel that advised President Obama of the far greater amount of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico than had been originally estimated.
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UC Santa Cruz computer scientists developed an open-source file management system named Ceph that is included in the new Linux operating system.
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