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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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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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UC Berkeley social media
UC Berkeley |

Social media actually makes you more (not less) relaxed, surprising new research says

It may not make you happy, but it will make you sleepy.
UC San Diego dying coral
UC San Diego |

The ocean is losing its breath

Climate change is rapidly increasing marine ‘dead zones,’ where oxygen is too low to support most marine life.
UC Riverside storybooks
UC Riverside |

How storybook lessons impart scholastic success

Differences in children's literature in the U.S., Mexico and China may help explain academic performance.
Mountain lion paws
UC Davis |

Healing burned paws with fish skin

A young mountain lion injured during the Thomas fire receives an innovative therapy to get him back on his feet.
UCLA DNA home test
UCLA |

Received an at-home DNA test as a holiday gift? Proceed with caution

Many people are ill-equipped to handle troubling medical information without proper guidance, UCLA geneticist says.
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University of California |

UC celebrates 150 years of pioneering a better future

Reflecting on a century and a half of life at the world's most renowned public university.
Unite to Light Ghana
UC Santa Barbara |

A guiding light for the vulnerable

Unite to Light, a nonprofit that has distributed over 90,000 solar lamps to 65 countries, now turns to help Rohingya refugees.
yellow warbler UCLA
UCLA |

How bird genetics adapt to climate change

Scientists find yellow warbler DNA is already adjusting to new conditions and ask whether it's enough to survive.
NYE UC Merced
UC Merced via The Conversation |

For richer or poorer: 4 economists ponder what 2018 has in store

Greg Wright and others project the winners and losers of the economy in the coming year.
Thiebaud UC Davis
UC Davis |

First Thiebaud paintings uncrated for upcoming exhibition

The first exhibition devoted to Thiebaud's artistic maturation opens Jan. 16 at Manetti Shrem.
UC San Diego tripwire
UC San Diego |

Computer scientists develop a simple tool to tell if websites suffered a data breach

No one — companies or nation states — is above big data hacks, researchers find.
CRISPR UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley |

First step toward CRISPR cure of Lou Gehrig’s disease

Scientists disable a muscle degeneration trigger to extend mouse lifespans by 25 percent.