May • 2010

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UC researchers created 1,482 new inventions in fiscal year 2009. That's an average of four a day.
47 startups based on UC discoveries launched last year.
UC holds more U.S. patents than any university in the world. UC-owned patents total 3,617, including 244 issued last year.
The top-earning UC invention in 2009 was the Hepatitis-B vaccine, discovered in 1979 at UC San Francisco.

UC Center Sacramento back in action

UC Davis will operate the University of California's popular education and research center in the state capital after budget shortages forced the suspension of programs last August.

UC Center Sacramento will resume summer journalism classes and internships in June. Public policy classes will begin again in September. The center will continue to serve all UC students.

About 600 students from throughout the UC system have enrolled in classes since the center opened in 2004. In addition to offering courses, the center matched students with internships in legislative, state agency and executive offices and in news organizations. Many of those former interns now work in government and public policy organizations.

The center also hosted researchers exploring issues important to California such as water resources and education reforms. All of those activities will resume under UC Davis management. Robert Huckfeldt, a UC Davis political science professor and director of the Institute of Governmental Affairs, will be the new director.

"UC Davis is in a wonderful position due to location and the strength of our programs to lead this center," said Chancellor Linda Katehi. "Our mission is to provide the best possible internship opportunities and an environment where scholars from all UC campuses can come together to provide important analyses on critical state issues."

The center's leadership will work with faculty and administrators on all of the campuses to create an ongoing series of public policy lectures and conferences.

The center previously was run as a unit of the UC Office of the President with an annual budget of $1 million. The center now has a leaner budget of $400,000, financed in part by a portion of the fees from students who enroll in classes. In the past, students' home campuses received all of their fees. The Office of the President is providing transition funding until the center can become self-supporting.

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