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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 San Diego CaliBaja Center
UC San Diego |

Engineers launch cross-border center to create materials that withstand extreme environments

Researchers come together to create materials for defense, nuclear and aerospace applications.
UC Santa Cruz slave voyages
UC Santa Cruz |

UC Santa Cruz professor to create new public database about the slave trade

UC Irvine also contributes research to visualizing its massive scale.
UC San Diego old habits new habits
UC San Diego |

How the brain makes – and breaks – a habit

Goal vs. habit: A UC San Diego professor researches how we may switch between the two.
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |

UC scientists identify gene involved with fracture healing

UC Davis, UC Merced and Lawrence Livermore Lab join forces on work that could lead to new therapies.
UC Davis biomedical innovation
UC Davis |

Biomedical innovations take top prizes in Big Bang! competition

UC Davis startups vie for funding to support new technologies in fertility and more.
UC San Diego wearable sensor
UC San Diego |

UC San Diego develops body patch that could improve fitness tracking

Unobstrusive device monitors both biochemical and electric signals at the same time — a first.
Precision Public Health Summit UCSF
UC San Francisco |

White House and Gates Foundation to convene precision public health summit at UCSF

Two-day live streamed conference will draw 150 leaders to discuss the early years of a child's life.
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UC ANR |

Urban gardens improve food security

Growing food in community and home gardens can provide people with more access to fresh vegetables for a healthier food supply, study finds.
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UCLA |

The teenage brain on social media

A new UCLA study sheds light on the influence of what peers "like."
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UC Riverside |

NSF funds extensive survey of Asian Americans

UCs Berkeley, Irvine, and Riverside team up to undertake the most extensive study of this fast-growing population to date.
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UC Merced |

Purple zebras? UC Merced on thinking, learning and neuroscience

Philosophers and scientists are coming together to unravel the secrets of cognitive science.
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UC Riverside |

Mantis shrimp inspires next generation of ultra-strong materials

A new structure discovered by UC Riverside scientists will inspire impact resistant applications.