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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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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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Study to explore HIV and aging

UC Riverside's Brandon Brown will lead two-year project funded by Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
Kim and Jack Johnson helped to launch UC Santa Barbara's Edible Campus Program in 2015 with a tree-planting event at Storke Tower.
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Taking root

Alumni Kim and Jack Johnson team with UC Santa Barbara's Edible Campus Program on a teaching farm.
Tomatoes dried in the chimney solar dryer, during an experiment led by Michael Reid and Jim Thompson at the Horticulture Innovation Lab Demonstration Center at UC Davis.
UC Davis |

Low-cost tool helps improve global nutrition, boost farmers' income

UC Davis researchers' invention measures food dryness to help prevent mold, a pervasive problem in developing countries.  
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UCLA |

UCLA Law Clinic wins US Supreme Court case

Case may not have made it to SCOTUS if not for the clinic, says professor who makes debut in front of the Court.
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UC Davis |

Pigeon study takes on sexism in science

New study shows the folly of assuming male and female animals are genetically the same.
Temecula-based Agrobiomics is commercializing a sealant developed by UC Riverside’s Philippe Rolshausen. The sealant protects grapevines from fungal damage that is shown on the right side of this vine.
UC Riverside |

Turning ideas into enterprise

UC Riverside supports innovation by bringing new technologies from the lab to the marketplace.
Dr. Kodi Azari, director of the UCLA Hand Transplant program, gets a good grip on Jonathan Koch's transplanted hand. Azari led the surgical teams that amputated Koch's hand and later transplanted a donor hand.
UCLA |

A true Hollywood story: Executive makes dramatic recovery from hand transplant

UCLA's Dr. Kodi Azari uses novel approach to prepare man for complex surgery.
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UCSF |

The hormone oxytocin is being tested for treatment of PTSD and alcohol abuse

Military personnel, who suffer these afflictions at a greater rate, may finally get some relief.
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What sets a UC education apart? Opportunities to change the world through research

Meet our undergraduate research ambassadors.
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How 3D printing is changing the way we make (and break) smartphones

New developments in 3D printing might be the answer to many of our smart phone woes, from how easily they shatter to how quickly their batteries drain. Using 3D printed material could even reduce the environmental impact of mobile phones by limiting the…
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UC Berkeley |

Device pulls water from dry air, powered only by the sun

Breakthrough harvester could help provide for your home's water needs.
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The strange, tumultuous life of solar power at the White House

Press conferences at the White House tend to occur in predictable locations: The Briefing Room, the Rose Garden, the South Lawn. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter chose a loftier venue: the roof. He didn’t do it for the view over Washington, D.C.; he wanted to…