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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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Fred Moten
UC Newsroom |

Meet UC’s 5 new MacArthur ‘genius’ award winners

Four UC alums and one faculty member will each receive a $625,000 unrestricted prize, or “genius grant,” as 2020 MacArthur fellows.
Anthony Fauci
UC Berkeley |

Dr. Anthony Fauci backs universal health care, expects slow return to ‘normal’

In a wide-ranging discussion, Fauci covers many of the issues that have come to define the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.
Cronutt post-op
UCSF |

How a UCSF team is giving Cronutt the sea lion a second chance with neuroscience

Cronutt, a sea lion suffering from toxic algae-induced epilepsy — a problem on the rise due to climate change — gets a shot at a better life.
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UC Davis |

UC Davis to establish 4-year program for students with intellectual disabilities

The campus receives a $2.1M grant from the U.S. DOE to create a program that will be the first of its kind in California.
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UC Newsroom |

UCs top Sierra magazine's ‘Cool Schools’ rankings

UC Irvine takes the top spot with five other UC campuses in the top 30 of the Sierra Club’s sustainable schools list.
Will Madrigal
UC Riverside |

UC Riverside is the first UC campus to teach the Cahuilla language

Students in the four-class series also study Cahuilla society and culture
Two researchers and a heron in a ditch
UC Merced |

Artificial intelligence is for the birds

Researchers are upgrading their migratory tracking capacity by creating a model to recognize bird calls.
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UC Newsroom |

8 things that are new this election

Voting is safer and easier than ever in California this year. Learn how you can make your ballot count.
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UC Riverside |

And now, the winner of the Ig Nobel Prize ...

Richard Vetter's work on how spiders terrorize those who study them nets him a parody Nobel.
Charlie Townes with Reinhard Genzel
UC Berkeley |

UC Berkeley played big role in Nobel Prize-winning work

Reinhard Genzel realized his mentor Charles Townes’ dream of exploring the center of the Milky Way on his way to his own Nobel Prize.
Doudna reacts with surprise to her win
UC Berkeley |

Jennifer Doudna wins 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry

Jennifer Doudna, UC Berkeley and UCSF professor and Berkeley Lab faculty scientist, shares the prize with Emmanuelle Charpentier for their discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 as a tool for making targeted changes to the genome.
Woman sneezing on a couch
UCLA |

Is it the flu, a cold or COVID-19?

Infectious disease specialists share how to tell the difference.