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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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UCLA |

UCLA Library releases audio of rare Harper Lee radio interview

The only known recording of the famous novelist discussing "To Kill a Mockingbird" reaches the public.
UC Global Food Initiative student fellow Hoaithi Dang (right of mascot) is one of three UC Merced students selected to speak at the upcoming session of Clinton Global Initiative University.
UC Merced |

Three students chosen for Clinton Global Initiative University

Three of UC Merced’s student sustainability stars will share ideas about the future and network with international students and dignitaries at the upcoming session of Clinton Global Initiative University at UC Berkeley.
Crab fishing UC Davis
UC Davis |

UC Davis pioneers unique cleanup program in partnership with fishermen

Amid Dungeness crab season delays, a collaboration to help oceans recover by retrieving lost gear has blossomed.
Santa Cruz 3-D printing
UC Santa Cruz |

UC Santa Cruz graduate student makes 'powerful' 3-D printing breakthrough

Collaboration with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory could lead to more efficient energy storage.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory WFIRST
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |

Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley scientists lead new space telescope project

NASA's WFIRST will explore mysteries of dark energy, hunt for distant planets, retrace universe's history during 6-year mission.
Michelle O'Malley UC Santa Barbara
UC Newsroom |

UC researchers receive Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers

Seven UC campuses and three labs represented among awardees granted major government honor.
UCLA sea snakes
UCLA Newsroom |

See something weird in nature? Call your local scientist

UCLA's Brad Shafffer on sea snakes and other signs of natural phenomena.
Wi-Fi scanning robots with x-ray vision
UC Newsroom |

How Wi-Fi can give us X-ray vision

Can Wi-Fi signals be used to sense the environment around us, or even see through walls?
UC Davis Peace Corps volunteer Austin Alcorn Petersen
UC Newsroom |

UC campuses among top producers of Peace Corps volunteers

Alumni have a long tradition of service that dates to organization's founding in 1961.
Food scientist Daniela Barile and graduate student Tian Tian study milk sugar compounds as part of a study showing the role these compounds play in nourishing health-promoting gut microbes in infants.
UC Davis |

Gut microbes and milk compounds tackle childhood malnutrition

One study suggests may be opportunity for dairy industry to play important role in helping to develop novel foods and therapies.
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UC Berkeley |

UC Berkeley is going 'Sugar Savvy'

Campus is on a mission to make Berkeley the most sugar-savvy university.
UC Santa Barbara tracking El Nino
UC Santa Barbara |

Tracking El Niño’s impact

UC Santa Barbara geologists are measuring coastal erosion and the effects of rising sea levels and storms brought by weather phenomenon.