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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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Illustration with whiteboard markers of a little cartoon agitated by itch and how the nervous system works on a whiteboard
UC San Francisco |

Could the neurons that make you scratch be the solution for your itch?

Scientists discover a role for the nervous system in keeping itch and allergy under control.
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UC San Diego |

Nanoparticle vaccine could curb cancer metastasis to lungs by targeting a protein

Fashioned from bacterial viruses, these nanoparticles have been engineered to target a protein known to play a central role in cancer growth and spread.
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UC Davis |

Why do men and women respond to stress differently? New research suggests answer is found in puberty

Women are nearly twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, but among boys and girls the likelihood is the same.
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UC Berkeley |

Berkeley Space Center at NASA Ames to become innovation hub for new aviation, space technology

UC Berkeley will develop a 36-acre site to house companies, labs and students in heart of Silicon Valley.
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UC Newsroom |

Journey to UC: An immersive, multicampus program changes the game for prospective transfer students

Journey to UC, a three-day, all-expenses-paid residential program jointly hosted by UC Davis and UC Berkeley, brings the transfer process to students from the farthest reaches of the state.
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UC Davis / California Department of Fish and Wildlife |

UC Davis to safeguard spring-run Chinook salmon broodstock

UC Davis joins state and federal fisheries agencies to conserve threatened spring-run Chinook salmon, housing captive broodstock.
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UC Berkeley |

Tests confirm humans tramped around North America more than 20,000 years ago

A new study coauthored by a UC Berkeley professor provides "seemingly incontrovertible proof" that humans arrived in the Americas thousands of years earlier than scientists have long thought.
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UC Santa Barbara |

A Chumash cultural burn reignites ancient practice for wildland conservation

“We're active in cultural revitalization, language revitalization, and doing this burn is one of those missing puzzle pieces,” said Robyne Redwater, whose family hails from villages in Santa Barbara and the Channel Islands.
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UC Merced |

UC Regent and astronaut José Hernández shows students their dreams aren’t ‘A Million Miles Away’

José Hernández is the subject of the new feature film "A Million Miles Away," a story of resilience and achievement about his journey from working the fields of the San Joaquin Valley to fulfilling his dream of being a NASA astronaut.
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Cellular atlas of amygdala reveals new treatment target for cocaine addiction

A new study from UC San Diego could help address an unmet medical need and shed light on the molecular underpinnings of addiction.
Patrick Acuña, wearing a blue UCI polo and with tattoos on his scalp, types on a laptop.
UC Irvine School of Social Ecology |

After 30 years in California prison, he starts new life at UC Irvine

Patrick Acuña is one of 26 incarcerated people at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County admitted to UC Irvine through the Leveraging Inspiring Futures Through Educational Degrees, or LIFTED, program.
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UC San Francisco |

Will a pill help new moms bounce back from postpartum depression?

Margo Pumar, medical director of perinatal psychiatry at UCSF, on what families need to know about a new drug called zuranolone.