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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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24 UC researchers named AAAS fellows

They are honored for their contributions to innovation, education and scientific leadership.
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UC Newsroom |

UC to dramatically boost California student enrollment

Regents approve budget plan to enroll an additional 10,000 California undergraduates over the next three years, including 5,000 freshman and transfer students in 2016-17.
UC Newsroom |

Regents streamline UC Health oversight

Trustees amend UC Health governance to foster continued growth of UC’s academic medical centers.
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UC Merced |

Board of Regents approves UC Merced expansion plan

2020 Project, which would double the physical capacity of the campus, is green-lighted to proceed.
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UC Newsroom |

UC joins campuses across the country on White House Climate Pledge

UC President Napolitano, together with all 10 UC chancellors, joined the White House and universities around the country in urging world leaders to take decisive action on climate change.
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UC Newsroom |

Faculty honored for contributions to UC initiatives

Leadership award winners are influencers in diversity, entrepreneurialsm, sustainability and other key issues.
UC Davis |

Pastured Poultry Farm to explore solutions for small chicken farms

UC Davis farm is home to 150 young laying chickens and a living lab where students and researchers hope to develop solutions benefiting pasture-based poultry farms, integrative crop-and-poultry farms, and backyard flocks.
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UC Santa Barbara |

An easy pill to swallow

An insulin pill in development shows early promise as a novel form of diabetes therapy.
California Magazine |

Innovative glasses let colorblind see what they’ve been missing

Lenses produced by UC Berkeley alums open up a vibrant new world of color.
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UC Davis |

Pigeons can distinguish cancerous breast tissue from normal

Study finds the birds are uncommonly good at distinguishing cancerous breast tissue from normal .
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UC Newsroom |

UC tests new ways of funding summer study

By making summer session more affordable, three UC campuses aim to help students take greater advantage of the academic off-season.
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UC Irvine |

Forecast: cloudy

Predicting intensity, impact of this winter’s El Niño is complicated by unprecedented confluence of weather anomalies.