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UC is No. 1 in patents in new U.S. ranking

UC is No. 1 in a National Academy of Inventors ranking of U.S. schools granted the most U.S. utility patents released today, March 19. Patents are a key driver of economic success and quality of life.

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10 tips on financial aid at the University of California. For starters: More than half of students pay no tuition.

UC has one of the strongest financial aid programs in the nation, with more than half of California undergraduates getting enough financial aid to cover all their tuition.

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UCLA |

‘Night and day’: Adventuring through childhood with newfound immune systems, thanks to now FDA-approved therapy

After years of hospital stays, these kids are thriving thanks to a gene therapy that just earned accelerated FDA approval.
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UC Riverside |

‘More crop per drop’: New UC Riverside irrigation robot is adorable — and revolutionary

UC Riverside has developed a modern-day robotic divining rod.
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UC San Francisco |

Innovative UC Health tool leads to better blood pressure control

‘These are real Californians who didn’t end up in an emergency room, didn’t have a disability, didn’t lose time with their families.’
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UC San Diego |

NIH awards $15.8 million to University of California for study of Latino brain health

A multisite study led by UC San Diego and UC Davis will examine changes in brain imaging, blood biomarkers and cognition over time in Latino and Hispanic people.
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UC Newsroom |

50 UC researchers elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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UC San Francisco |

Is your brain aging faster than you are? Sleep may hold the key

A machine-learning model measures brain wave activity to calculate ‘brain age’ and relative dementia risk.
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UC Newsroom |

What ‘Open Inquiry: UC Arts’ reveals about the future of arts education

A new exhibition of work by recent University of California alumni highlights UC's artistic legacy and shows California’s world-class public university is ready to step in as art schools across the country disappear.
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UC Santa Barbara |

The Big Bee Project brings natural history collections into the 21st century

UC Santa Barbara wraps up the Big Bee Project, a pioneering, multicampus initiative to bring natural history collections into the century of AI, big data and networked databases.
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UC Riverside |

How plants stop growing to survive stress

A retired scientist’s persistence reveals insight to boost farm yields.
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UC Berkeley School of Public Health |

Harnessing real-world data to bring life-saving drugs to the public sooner

UC Berkeley School of Public Health researchers are collaborating with the FDA and industry to make drug clinical trials faster and better.
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UCLA |

Can pesticide exposure before pregnancy affect babies’ health?

A new study suggests a correlation between certain chemical compounds and lower newborn health scores.
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UC Irvine, UC Newsroom |

It’s a match! UC’s medical students find out their next step today

After years of hard work, grueling schedules, and rigorous studies, medical students around the country and across the University of California will learn where they’ll go next in their journeys as doctors.