November • 2009

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The Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China ranked seven UC campuses among the top 50 universities in the world: Berkeley (3), UCLA (13), San Diego (14), San Francisco (18), Santa Barbara (35), Irvine (46) and Davis(49).
U.S. News & World Report's 2010 America's Best Colleges guide ranked UC Berkeley and UCLA as the No. 1 and No. 2 best public universities.

Power of 10: News from UC campuses

UC Berkeley is creating a plan to turn a former gold mine in South Dakota into the world's deepest laboratory with a $29 million National Science Foundation grant.
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UC Davis will lead a federally funded Horticulture Collaborative Research Support Program to fight hunger and malnutrition in rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa, southern Asia and Latin America.
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UC Irvine researchers have discovered what causes a cancer-causing toxin to form on moldy nuts and grains. Their discovery would help prevent some cancers.
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UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research has concluded that if any of three national health care reform plans under discussion are approved, about 4 million uninsured Californians would be covered.
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UC Merced's economic impact in California has reached nearly $1 billion since July 2000 when operations began. The campus has generated nearly $456 million in payroll, construction jobs and purchases in the San Joaquin Valley.
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UC Riverside is giving 40 middle school math and science teachers an opportunity to learn teaching methods aimed at reducing the achievement gap among racial and ethnic groups.
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UC San Diego researchers have found an enzyme that slows the progression of Lou Gehrig's disease in mice. They hope to test the treatment on humans within five years.
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UC San Francisco and San Francisco VA Medical Center researchers collaborated on a study of surgery survival rates among veterans with post-traumatic stress syndrome. Even though the PTSD patients were younger than the study patients without that diagnosis, they had a lower one-year survival rate.
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UC Santa Barbara Chancellor Henry Yang has been elected chair of the Association of American Universities, a group of 60 U.S. and two Canadian elite research universities. Institutions that are admitted by invitation; Santa Barbara was invited to join in 1995. Five other UC campuses are members: Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, UCLA and San Diego.
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UC Santa Cruz researchers will help lead an Antarctic expedition to drill a half-mile through ice sheets to study subglacial lakes, among the last unexplored aquatic environments on Earth.
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