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UC Newsroom |

Coming of age in a warming world: How UC students are turning climate anxiety into action

How do UC students think about their futures, knowing that the climate they were born into will probably look a whole lot different than the one they grow old in?

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UC Newsroom |

A UC degree launched Miguel Tamayo’s life as an aerospace engineer. Here’s how he paid for college.

Hear how one student paid for a UC education. 

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Brittany Hosea-Small
UC Berkeley |

Talking science with the fluidity of Pixar

Ph.D. student Sara ElShafie works with Pixar story artists to help her fellow scientists better communicate.
UC Merced man reading
UC Merced |

How reading makes us move

A new study shows how our muscles react as we process written language, an advance in the field of embodied cognition.
UC San Diego Ricky Flahive
UC San Diego |

Commencement speaker honors common bond of setbacks and success

Ricky Flahive spent his early years missing school, living in a motel. He now shares the stage with the Dalai Lama.
UC Davis human fossil
UC Davis |

Scientist helps excavate oldest-known human fossils — and their dinner

Discovery of 300,000-year-old human ancestors pushes back our origins by 100,000 years.
UC Irvine small waves
UC Irvine |

Small climb in mean temperatures linked to far higher chance of deadly heat waves

UC Irvine-led analysis of data from India could have dire implications for the future.
UC Berkeley Nesbet Award
UC Berkeley |

Walls, spies, East Berlin and the California Book Award

Anne Nesbet's historical novel “Cloud and Wallfish” claims the gold medal in juvenile fiction.
UCSF Haight Ashbury Free Clinic
UCSF |

Born in the Summer of Love: The Haight Ashbury Free Clinic transformed drug addiction treatment

Famed clinic celebrates its 50th anniversary.
Jesse Abrams UC Santa Cruz Freedom Coalition
UC Newsroom |

From student to modern-day abolitionist

UC Santa Cruz organization founded and run by students helps free slave laborers.
UC San Diego VR glove
UC San Diego |

Play piano with this virtual reality glove

It's a leap forward with potential applications that are even more dazzling.
UCSF man bicycle
UCSF |

Bicycling's huge costs in America

Billion-dollar toll from injuries suggests a need for safer infrastructure.
UC Riverside Mellon Mays
UC Riverside |

UC Riverside’s first student cohort of Mellon Mays fellows to graduate

Program helps diversify faculty and research by mentoring undergrads.
UCLA galapagos cormorant
UCLA |

How the Galapagos cormorant lost its ability to fly

Analyzing one of Darwin's favorite birds, a research team finds the genetic changes that clipped the bird's wings.