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UC announces record-breaking admissions for fall 2024

The University of California admitted the largest and most diverse class in its history for fall 2024, including big jumps in admission offers to California students, community college transfers and students historically underrepresented.

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Your ultimate guide to the 100+ UC athletes set to shine at the Paris Olympics

103 UC athletes, supported by 13 UC-affiliated coaches and staff, will be going for gold in the Summer Games, competing in 27 sports and representing 31 different nations and five UC campuses.

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UC Newsroom |

National Science Foundation awards the University of California a $2.5M grant for its CAMP program

The innovative effort has helped propel a 580 percent increase in underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering and math at UC over the past three decades.
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UC Newsroom |

University of California campuses rise to the top in two new rankings

In new rankings from the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, all nine undergraduate campuses stood out for how well they prepare graduates for future success.
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UC Riverside |

Good grub — why you should consider eating ... bugs

Two entomologists share their insights on insects as a food source and why more people should consider including bugs in their diet.
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UC San Diego |

Dangerous airborne fungus boosted by California droughts

Valley fever cases peak from September to November; drought temporarily dampens these peaks, but leads to bigger surges once rain returns
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UC Berkeley |

New process vaporizes plastic bags and bottles, yielding gases to make new, recycled plastics

The catalytic process, discovered by researchers at UC Berkeley, efficiently reduces polymers to chemical precursors, bringing a circular economy for plastics one step closer to reality.
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UCLA |

Lyme disease early detection could get boost from simpler, faster testing technology

An AI-enabled testing technology with point-of-care potential was shown to be accurate and reliable in UCLA-led study.
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UC Newsroom |

You know wildfire smoke is bad for you. But did you know it's this bad?

Breathing wildfire smoke harms our lungs — but the damage doesn't stop there. And UC research finds that wildfire smoke could be 10x more toxic than smoke from "everyday" sources like traffic and industry.
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UC Newsroom |

As the Paralympics get underway, UCLA’s Michael Garafola is bringing adaptive sports to the mainstream.

Adaptive athletics, or sports with modifications in rules or equipment to allow people of different abilities to compete, offer thrills and community to students, faculty and staff.
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UC Davis |

Innovative new technology helps seniors age in place

Interactive tech can help older adults live alone and ease caregiver fatigue.
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UC San Diego |

Dogs understand words from soundboard buttons, study reveals

The study is the first empirical paper to emerge from the world’s largest longitudinal project on button-trained pets.
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UCLA |

Dark matter could have helped make supermassive black holes in the early universe

Radiation from dark matter may have kept hydrogen gas hot enough to condense into black holes.
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UC Santa Barbara |

Mosquitoes sense infrared from body heat to help track humans down

It’s not quite heat vision, but mosquitoes do use thermal infrared to find human hosts.