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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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Labrador eating food
UC Davis |

Preliminary study suggests mercury not a risk in dog foods

Researchers tested 24 commercial diets for mercury and methylmercury.
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UC Berkeley |

UC Berkeley alumni score three 2019 Pulitzer Prize victories

The campus boasts three new alumni winners and several other finalists and contributors.
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UC Santa Barbara |

Measuring plastic's impact on our air

Researchers determine the extent to which plastic contributes to climate change. It's a lot.
Students slumped in a classroom
UC Berkeley |

Anxiety ‘epidemic’ brewing on college campuses

Rates of worry have doubled since 2008, researchers find.
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UCSF |

Medicaid could save $2.6 billion within a year if just 1 percent of recipients quit smoking

The median state would save an estimated $25M in Medicaid expenditures, says UCSF research.
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UC San Diego |

Usurp the burp: How seaweed can help curb cow burps (and their emissions)

UC agricultural and marine scientists fight one of the state's biggest sources of methane: cow burps.
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UC Irvine |

Media exposure to mass violence can fuel cycle of distress, study shows

Researchers found graphic news exposure can fuel anxiety while promoting more media consumption.
Jeffrey Stewart and Darrin Bell
UC Newsroom |

UC professor, alum win Pulitzers for work grounded in black perspectives

Jeffrey Stewart and Darrin Bell earn one of the nation's highest honors in journalism, literature and music.
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UC Davis |

Heat waves in California can be predicted by thunderstorms in the tropics

Advance notice of heat waves could help protect the agricultural riches of the Central Valley.
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UC Riverside |

Being 'Other' in America

American Book Award-winning author Laila Lalami examines contemporary life in her new book “The Other Americans.”
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UCLA |

Winter is coming: A new scientific device creates electricity from falling snow

Researchers design a first-of-its-kind nanogenerator that makes electricity in remote areas.
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UCLA Anderson Review |

American parents (still) prefer boys — and it's hurting their daughters' test scores

Family bias can explain a non-trivial part of the observed gender disparities in math performance.