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Coming of age in a warming world: How UC students are turning climate anxiety into action
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A UC degree launched Miguel Tamayo’s life as an aerospace engineer. Here’s how he paid for college.
UC Newsroom |
Seeding innovation
Long before UC Berkeley author Michael Pollan told us omnivores had a dilemma in books that questioned the industrial food complex, college students were at the forefront of a movement to rethink what we eat.
Back in the 1960s and 1970s, when organic was a…
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As HIV population grows older, diseases of aging a new dilemma
The longer life expectancy of those infected with HIV presents a new challenge for patients and health care providers.
UC Merced |
Air pollution results from sugarcane ethanol production
MERCED — The burning of sugarcane fields prior to harvest for ethanol production can create air pollution that detracts from the biofuel's overall sustainability, according to research published recently by a team of researchers led by scientists at…
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UC cuts administrative costs, seeks new revenue
The University of California Board of Regents met Wednesday and Thursday (Jan. 18-19) at UC Riverside to discuss savings from cost-cutting and development of new revenue to fill a looming budget gap.But discussion of private contributions as a way to bolster…
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Assess stranger's trustworthiness in 20 seconds
BERKELEY — There’s definitely something to be said for first impressions. New research from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests it can take just 20 seconds to detect whether a stranger is genetically inclined to being trustworthy,…
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For the birds, location matters when foraging
Location matters for birds on the hunt for caterpillars, according to researchers at UC Irvine and Wesleyan University.
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CERN group traps antihydrogen atoms for 16 minutes
Trapping antihydrogen atoms at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has become so routine that physicists are confident that they can soon begin experiments on this rare antimatter equivalent of the hydrogen atom, according to researchers at…
UC San Francisco |
UCSF ALS Center’s founding director dies of the disease he studied
Richard K. Olney, MD, founding director of the ALS Treatment and Research Center at UCSF and a pioneer in clinical research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), has died at age 64, following his own eight-year battle with the disease.
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UC explores restorative justice in improving campus climate
The two-day training session at the UC Office of the President offers participants guidance in facilitating and implementing restorative justice in a campus community.
UC Office of the President |
Business school program targets underrepresented students
Talented minority college students need access to great career-building opportunities, and California needs those students. That was the message University of California representatives, elected officials and African American community leaders delivered…
UC Newsroom |
CalTeach brings STEM students into K-12 classrooms
From the time Elizabeth Pierson was 7 and her parents came downstairs to find her in the kitchen mixing baking soda and vinegar — dressed in a raincoat, swimming goggles and rubber gloves — the UC Berkeley senior knew she wanted to be a scientist.
UCLA |
Evolution is written all over your face
UCLA biologists working as "evolutionary detectives" offer some answers as to why the faces of primates are so dramatically different from one another.