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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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UC Santa Barbara |

Business as Plan B

Research suggests family leave policies have a significant impact on women’s entrepreneurial activities.
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UCLA |

World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 comes alive on computer screens

Modeling expert lets viewers marvel at Chicago World’s Fair that drew 27 million people from around the world.
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UC San Diego |

Who’s the ‘enviest’ of them all?

Research suggests young adults are more envious than their elders – and about more things.
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UC Riverside |

Some 3-D printed objects are toxic

Researchers find zebrafish embryos die at alarming rates when exposed to certain 3-D printed materials.
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Blum Center |

Big Ideas deadline approaches

Preproposals are due Nov. 12 for UC student innovation contest.
Visiting eco-chef Roger Feely makes grasshopper tacos during a demonstration of drought-friendly cooking at Festival of Discovery in Aldrich Park.
UC Irvine |

Food for thought

UC Irvine provides a full menu of events, activities encouraging new approaches to sustainable nourishment.
Standing inside the food pantry at UCI's Student Outreach & Retention Center are (from left) ASUCI food security Co-commissioner Erica Wong, Orange County Food Bank Director Mark Lowry, SOAR Director Graciela Fernandez and ASUCI food security Co-commissio
UC Irvine |

Banking on food

Free pantry staves off hunger among needy UC Irvine students.
UC Newsroom |

The research that's changing U.S. food policy

UC research is helping uncover answers to the nation’s obesity epidemic and other thorny food-related issues.
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UC San Francisco |

Artificial kidney research gets a boost

Development of a surgically implantable, artificial kidney — spearheaded by researchers at UCSF and Vanderbilt — receives a $6 million federal grant.
UC San Francisco |

Does healthier food help low-income people control their diabetes?

Researchers find better management of diabetes through nutrition food and education supplied by food pantries.
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UCLA |

West Nile virus killing millions more birds than previously thought

The findings are particularly alarming for birds with smaller populations, which can’t rebound like a large population can.
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UC Berkeley |

Scientists map source of Northwest’s next big quake

Ocean-bottom seismometers help explain the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate that causes megathrust earthquakes.