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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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UC Berkeley |

White racism linked to fatal heart disease for blacks and whites

Living in unabashedly racist communities can shorten lives, new study finds.
UC Davis dogs cancer
UC Davis |

Cancer therapies for dogs may speed up treatments for humans

Man's best friend leads the way in fighting diseases we have in common.
Sierra cool schools ranking
UC Newsroom |

Sierra magazine names UC campuses among the nation’s greenest

All nine UC undergraduate campuses made the annual rankings, with Irvine and Davis in the top 10 in the country.
UC Santa Barbara professor David Cleveland in his home garden.
UC Santa Barbara |

How does your garden grow?

Professor, students model the effect of household gardens on greenhouse gas emissions.
Dr. Christopher Giza examines Kennedy Dierk, 14, at the UCLA Steve Tisch BrainSport Clinic. A new survey shows most parents rely on outdated advice when caring for kids with concussions.
UCLA |

Most parents likely to follow outdated concussion advice

UCLA survey shows majority of parents are apt to heed advice that could worsen symptoms for kids with concussions.
Former NFL defensive end Kalimba Edwards traded a mansion for a tent cabin on the UC Santa Cruz Farm where he is an apprentice in the ecologial horticulture program.
UC Santa Cruz |

Football, farming and food security

Former NFL player and current UC Santa Cruz farm apprentice tackles new cause: how to feed the world sustainably.
Aerial image showing farming in California's Imperial Valley.
UC Riverside |

Helping farmers improve air quality

Researchers receive grant to study ways of reducing fertilizer use in high temperature agricultural regions.
Cafe 3
UC Berkeley |

Cal Dining opens doors to more inclusive cafe

Cafe 3 is first dining station in the UC system that is certified kosher.
Woolly mammoth
UC Santa Barbara |

A mammoth undertaking

How can de-extinction be made more ecologically responsible?
Car sharing on campuses
UC Newsroom |

Car sharing on campuses improves quality of life, takes cars off the road

A new survey by UC Berkeley and Zipcar shows how universities can relieve the crunch on campus parking.
The CalCARES report uses heat maps to show areas with higher proportions of particular cancers diagnosed at a late stage, pointing to a need for increased screening.
UC Davis |

Report shows impact of cancer screening

UC Davis report analyzes cancer screening in California over past 15 years.
UC Davis professor and marine ecologist Steven Morgan prepares to deploy yellow "robot larvae" off the coast of Bodega Bay.
UC Davis |

Robot larvae deployed at sea

"Minion"-like robots reveal surprising ways marine larvae move, and what that means for the ocean.