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UC Newsroom |

Next up for UC’s Class of 2025? Building California’s brilliant future

From jobs to graduate school to giving back to the communities they came from, UC’s latest crop of graduates has big plans to make a difference.

Four graduates in robes and stoles hold their caps and smile at the camera

Featured Story

UC Newsroom |

Is college worth it? For University of California grads, the data offers an undeniable ‘Yes!’

Not only do large percentages of UC alums enter the workforce with no student debt, but their degrees deliver an array of economic and social benefits both for themselves and their communities.

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Dairy cows, a few black and white, one red and white, the other white, on green grass under a blue sky
UC Riverside |

A California dairy tried to capture its methane. It worked.

Sealing manure ponds at a Central Valley farm cut emissions dramatically.
A woman with short hair in a white doctor's coat smiles in a chair with a model of a human spine behind her against a lilac backdrop
UC San Francisco |

I’m a spine doctor. Here’s how I take care of my back

Hitting the gym at 5 a.m., passing on the dessert, and doing squats deskside are tactics some people employ to keep pain-free and nimble. Thankfully, this physician advocates an easier approach.
Three wine bottles, two red, one white
UC Davis |

UC Davis launches small-batch wine label

Hilgard631 wine sales will benefit student scholarship.
Two women in lab coats in a lab with reddish lighting in the corner; one holds and looks at a small baggie
UC San Diego |

To study cancer ‘kill switch,’ UC San Diego scientists will send stem cells to space

Rebecsinib’s power to stop deadly cancers in their tracks will enter Phase 1 clinical trial this year.
Four women in gray UC San Diego College Corps polo shirts take a selfie on the beach, smiling
UC Newsroom |

How UC’s College Corps student volunteers are helping tackle some of California’s biggest challenges

College Corps connects some 10,000 students from 44 colleges up and down the state with paid fellowships at hundreds of local nonprofits working to address crucial challenge areas for California.
Four graduates in robes and stoles hold their caps and smile at the camera
UC Newsroom |

Is college worth it? For University of California grads, the data offers an undeniable ‘Yes!’

Not only do large percentages of UC alums enter the workforce with no student debt, but their degrees deliver an array of economic and social benefits both for themselves and their communities.
A young woman in a cap, gown and stole looks on happily during a graduation ceremony
UC Newsroom |

Next up for UC’s Class of 2025? Building California’s brilliant future

From jobs to graduate school to giving back to the communities they came from, UC’s latest crop of graduates has big plans to make a difference.
William Finnegan smiles against a brick wall in a sepia-tinted image
UC Santa Cruz |

Acclaimed author William Finnegan on his long journey to The New Yorker

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Humanities Undergraduate Alumni Award from UC Santa Cruz.
A young woman with a distinctive haircut speaks into a smart phone, smiling
UC Irvine |

An AI that’s a better friend — and maybe a lifeline for humanity

An AI from UC Irvine researchers doesn’t just chat. It remembers, it cares, and it might just help us save ourselves.
Students walk in front of the music building on Cal's campus, with the campanile in the background
UC Berkeley |

Berkeley's music boom

A curriculum overhaul and a post-pandemic need to reconnect have made music Cal’s fastest-growing major.
A dessicated agriculture field under a hazy sky
UC Santa Barbara |

The atmosphere’s growing thirst is making droughts worse, even where it rains

New research from UC Santa Barbara reveals that the atmosphere’s drying capacity is outpacing increases to rainfall.
A scan of a mouse brain shows blood vessels (red), brain cells (green), and amyloid plaques (blue). A new gene therapy treatment developed by UC San Diego works by reprogramming the behavior of diseased brain cells.
UC San Diego |

Alzheimer’s gene therapy shows promise in preserving cognitive function

Unlike existing treatments for Alzheimer’s that target unhealthy protein deposits, the new approach developed at UC San Diego could help address the root cause of the disease by influencing behavior of brain cells themselves.