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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 |

The coldest summer

A team of researchers in Antarctica is studying an ancient subduction zone to better understand the continent’s geologic evolution.
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UCLA |

The Grand Challenge of combating depression

Genetic study of 100,000 people will be the largest ever on a single disorder.
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California Magazine |

So long, passwords: What will it take for us to trust biometrics?

Fingerprints, voice and facial recognition aren't foolproof. For biometrics to truly dislodge passwords, a different approach is necessary to make them more secure.
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UCLA Blueprint |

Unequal schools: the perpetuation of poverty

A researcher's own experience with learning disabilities led to devoting his research and writing to identifying inequalities in education and community-organizing for school reform.
Irish President Michael Higgins meets Berkeley students and announces seed funding for an Irish studies program.
UC Berkeley |

Irish president presses his case for ending world hunger

Helps launch Irish studies program at UC Berkeley.
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UC San Francisco |

Cutting sugar from kids' diets improves health in just days

Reducing consumption of added sugar has the power to reverse a cluster of chronic metabolic diseases, such as high cholesterol and blood pressure, in children in as little as 10 days.
UC Newsroom |

The 10 scalable solutions

More details on each of these solutions can be found in the executive summary of "Bending the Curve." A full report will be published in spring 2016.
V. "Ram" Ramanathan
UC Newsroom |

UC researchers present 10 scalable solutions for climate change

These solutions offer a practical framework outlining both immediate and longer-term actions for moving toward carbon neutrality.
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UCLA via The Conversation |

California universities launch experiment to go carbon-neutral 'at scale'

UC pledges to stop contributing to climate change while going about its normal business. Can the lessons we’re learning here be scaled up to the nation and the world? 
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UC Berkeley |

Lotion ingredient may be more potent carcinogen than thought

Paraben, found in sunscreens, shampoos and other personal care products, interacts with body's own growth factors to increase breast cell proliferation.
UC San Francisco |

UCSF Health System to expand care throughout Bay Area and beyond

Representing a new era in patient care, the campus is introducing UCSF Health, which expands delivery of innovative, high-quality and high-value care to people throughout the region.
neurons making GDF10
UCLA |

Discovery could lead to better recovery after stroke

Previously unidentified molecule signals brain tissue to form new connections.