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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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Heart health UC San Diego Latina
UC San Diego |

New UC San Diego center will focus on heart health among Latinas

$3.7 million research initiative to explore factors contributing to higher cardiovascular disease risk.
UC Merced California crops
UC Merced |

How plants could adapt to changing climate

UC Merced botanists study plants in diverse habitats to peek into the future of California's crops.
UC Irvine mind games
UC Irvine |

Mind games: Why April Fools' Day works

A UC Irvine cognitive scientist exposes the ultimate trickster: your brain.
Wendell Lim UCSF
UC San Francisco |

UCSF schools lead nation in NIH biomedical research funding

UC San Francisco's four schools receive the highest awards for the third year in a row.
UC Santa Cruz pediatric cancer
UC Santa Cruz Magazine |

Building a ladder to a cure

UC Santa Cruz researchers open a new front in the treatment of pediatric cancer.
UCSF dementia depression
UC San Francisco |

Study suggests ‘emotional health’ implicated in dementia

Risk may be almost doubled by escalating depression in the elderly, according to UC San Francisco research.
Tumbleweed UC Riverside
UC Riverside |

New tumbleweed species rapidly expanding range

UC Riverside researchers find the weed may have tumbled too far.
From left, farmers Pak Ry and Brap Yart carry a bin of sponge gourd and banana leaves into a CoolBot-equipped cold room in Cambodia, to keep the produce fresh before sale.
UC Davis/UC ANR |

How one farmer's invention is reducing postharvest losses around the world

UC helps test CoolBot.
eSports UC Irvine
UC Irvine |

UC Irvine launches first-of-its-kind eSports initiative

Campus is a destination for gaming talent with teams, arenas, and scholarships.
Killer whale UC Davis
UC Davis |

Wild killer whales to get personal health records

UC Davis scientists are driving an effort to provide improved, possibly hands-off, checkups.
Berkeley Lab Ee-Been Goh
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |

From near-dropout to doctorate, scientist now a leader in biofuels

Berkeley Lab biochemist thrives on re-engineering bacteria and mentoring students.
UC Santa Barbara |

Reforms could restore wild fisheries to health in just a decade

A UC Santa Barbara professor shows how quickly ocean sustainability can be achieved.