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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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UCSF |

Alzheimer’s and concussion-related CTE may spread in the brain via common mechanism

Research is first to suggest that chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a prion disease.
UCLA machine learning folklore
UCLA |

Researchers create computer model to tell fact from fiction on the internet

Sifting through nearly 2 million posts, their algorithm could identify an underlying narrative.
UC Santa Cruz Breakthrough Prize
UC Newsroom |

UC Santa Barbara physicist and UC Santa Cruz biologist named 2017 Breakthrough Prize winners

Two UC professors win the most lucrative award in science, with a third earning early-career honors.
UC Irvine alum Eloy Oakley
UC Irvine |

First-generation flag bearer

UC Irvine alum Eloy Oakley is first Latino to lead state’s community colleges.
UC Santa Barbara teacher classroom
UC Santa Barbara |

Teaching toward the future

Education professor receives a 2017 President’s Research Catalyst Award to lead a nine-campus consortium.
Greenland ice sheet
UCLA |

Chilling climate revelations from a previous ice age

Major changes in ice and temperatures could cause abrupt transformations elsewhere, study shows.
Stacy Philpott
UC Santa Cruz |

Grant awarded to study sustainable practices for urban agriculture

UC Santa Cruz environmental studies professor Stacy Philpott will lead the research.
Nanoletters UC Riverside
UC Riverside |

Using plants and quantum physics for potential superefficient solar cells

Physicist discovers how to make photocells mimic the way plants maximize their absorption of sunlight.
UC Berkeley Westworld
UC Berkeley |

How long does it take to tell a human from an android?

A new study suggests it's quicker than you think.
American Studies major Esperanza Campos, holding son Mauricio Ferrer, says the Cal Nourish gift cards “make a lot of difference” to student parents.
UC Berkeley |

Holiday help wanted: meals for students

Cal Nourish program helps fill need.
UC Santa Cruz Artie Konrad
UC Santa Cruz |

Fostering the well-being of billions

UC alum Artie Konrad combines psychology and tech on Facebook projects that help people connect.
Infection of developing human brain with the Zika virus (green) highlights susceptibility of radial glial cells during fetal development.
UCSF |

Zika in fetal brain tissue responds to a popular antibiotic

UCSF researchers identify crucial cells targeted by the virus.