How to answer UC's Personal Insight Questions
About to start the Personal Insight Questions for the UC undergraduate application? Here are some helpful tips on what the questions are about and what they cover.

New course on the Beatles comes together
Award-winning filmmaker will teach the band’s story through film, video and interviews with music industry executives.

The Kidney Project and the bioartificial pancreas: When inspiration strikes twice
Shuvo Roy is not content to just work on the world's first bioartificial kidney. Now he's doing the same for the pancreas.

Why we think women sound shrill
Why do men seem to speak with more authority? Because we've engineered them to sound that way, says Tom McEnaney.

Nine in 10 Silicon Valley jobs pay less now than 20 years ago
Silicon Valley's business models concentrate wealth, new research finds.

UC’s fresh crop of MacArthur geniuses
UC Davis professor Sarah Stewart — who literally shoots for the moon — is among five new UC-affiliated MacArthur fellows.

What if doctors could zero in on the one action that would make the most impact on your health?
Health choices made easy, thanks to a new model that relies on data from your FitBit.

UC named a national leader in renewable energy
For the second year in a row, the EPA recognizes the University of California with a Green Power Leadership Award.

Wanted: Student ambassadors to build support in Sacramento
The UC Advocacy Network is looking for new ambassadors to represent UC student interests at the state Capitol.
UC president to Stockton students: We want you
A visit from civic and UC leaders has Stockton students excited to achieve college.

Smartphone, M.D.
A new app developed by UC Santa Barbara researchers enables a smartphone to ID bacteria in just one hour.

How a UCLA philosophy professor helped construct ‘The Good Place’
‘The Trolley Problem’ is just one of the thought experiments that make the show tick.

Sex on the kitchen table
Now that professor Norman Ellstrand has your attention, he’d like to teach you about plant reproduction.

The Central Valley's freedom summer
More than two dozen UC students spent their summer engaged in voter education, registration, and outreach.
The way we've been thinking about olive oil is all wrong.
Olive oils can be appreciated like wines — and the UC Davis Olive Center wants you to have a taste.
Meet the new faces of UC
Discover what brought some of UC's 54,000 extraordinary freshmen and transfer students to their new homes this week.

UC Berkeley research leads to Nobel Prize-winning immunotherapy
James Allison shares the 2018 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discoveries he made at UC Berkeley that revolutionized the treatment of cancer.

Decisive sea otters distinguish differences by touch
New research reveals how sea otters hunt through the power of their paws and whiskers.

Just like pigeons, people tend to flock
Are we rational? Sure. But crowd panics, market bubbles and other collective actions seem to be built into our species.

Now you just need to remember to exercise!
Even mild physical activity immediately improves memory function.

