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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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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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Nanowire laser UC Berkeley
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |

Lasers produced by UC scientists bring light-speed data one step closer

Nanowire innovation illuminates the promise of electronics combined with light.
UC Riverside hackathon winners
UC Riverside |

'Uber for Tutors' helps students learn on demand

Two UC Riverside undergrads who won world's largest education hackathon debut their app on Apple and Google stores.
Wurster Hall, where Charles Phan’s newest eatery will feature his trademark organic international food
UC Berkeley |

Slanted Door restaurateur to open new cafe at UC Berkeley

Charles Phan, who studied architecture at Berkeley in the 1980s, says his newest venture — to be located in Wurster Hall, home of the College of Environmental Design — will feature organic international food, his culinary trademark. T
Memory reward study UC Davis
UC Davis |

Memory replay prioritizes high-reward experiences

UC Davis neuroscientists find that we recall events better when they are associated with a reward.
UC Irvine sea levels
UC Irvine |

Decade of rising seas slowed by land soaking up extra water, study finds

Scientists at UC Irvine and NASA provide the first measurements of how the earth's absorption of liquid is — temporarily — depressing sea levels around the world.
UC Merced Keck Award Munoz
UC Merced |

Prestigious Keck Award granted to UC Merced bioengineer

Professor Victor Muñoz wins highly competitive $1 million prize for biomedical research, the campus's first.
UC Santa Barbara Alzheimer's book
UC Santa Barbara |

The brain game

A new book by UC Santa Barbara's Kenneth S. Kosik offers strategies for reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
Bees
UC Berkeley |

Worldwide bee epidemic linked to human cause: colony trafficking

A UC Berkeley finding suggests that the pandemic is manmade, with trade and transport of bees for crop pollination driving the spread.
Sighing study UCLA
UCLA |

UCLA scientists find out where the brain makes sighs - and why

The discovery of the origin and function of sighing could benefit patients with breathing problems.
Gender gap in STEM UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Barbara |

The STEM gender gap is not where you think

A UC Santa Barbara professor seeks to explain why certain countries are more likely to see women in STEM than others.
GPS accuracy
UC Riverside |

GPS accuracy down to the centimeter from UC Riverside

Technology will be used for high precision positioning in mobile devices, autonomous vehicles and related applications.
You won't see waste like this around UCR. Multiple programs have significantly reduced food waste on campus, through recycling programs and raising awareness with speakers such as journalist and author Jonathan Bloom on Feb. 16 and 17.
UC Riverside |

Why do we waste so much food, and why does it matter?

Food waste expert Jonathan Bloom, author of 'American Wasteland,' to speak at UC Riverside Feb. 16 and Palm Desert Center Feb. 17.