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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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UC Berkeley |

Better way to pack natural gas into fuel tanks

New method of storing methane could speed development of cars that don’t require the high pressures or cold temperatures of today’s LNG vehicles.
UC Berkeley |

Final volume of Mark Twain’s autobiography now on shelves

Famed writer mandated that his autobiography remain unpublished for a century after his death.
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UC Berkeley |

Tech's no magic bullet in getting voters of color to the polls

Old-school but highly personal tactics — phone banks, door-to-door canvassing — have proven more effective.
Eloy Ortiz Oakley and Tom Torlakson
UC Newsroom |

UC regent: Transfer vital to state's future

A chat with Eloy Ortiz Oakley touches on how UC can work with community colleges to better serve transfer students and meet future workforce needs.
A vegan kale, pomegranate and roasted butternut squash salad is among the harvest salads on Brown’s winter menu.
UC Berkeley |

Food Day star: new 'plant-forward' Brown's cafe

The new menu at the UC Berkeley eatery consists almost entirely of local foods that are grown, milled, preserved and processed within 250 miles of the campus.
Paul Felstein
UC Davis |

UC Davis boosts 13 new companies in past year

Startup support from campus is part of UC's commitment to tech transfer and entrepreneurship.
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UC Davis |

Map IDs farmland with greatest potential for replenishing groundwater

Groundwater banking index provides information on millions of acres of California farmland.
Lawrence Berkeley Lab |

How bacteria vaccinate themselves against viruses

Studying how bacteria set up their immune system to detect viruses could improve genome editing through CRISPR.
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UC Santa Cruz |

How a black hole swallows a star

New observations via X-ray telescopes confirm theory of 'tidal disruptions' that rip stars apart.
UC Newsroom |

UC faculty win Packard Fellowships

The fellowships support early-career researchers in science and engineering.
Bennet Omalu, UC Davis
UC Newsroom |

The diagnosis that rocked football

UC Davis pathologist Bennet Omalu was the first to report cases of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in professional football players; the story of his discovery is the subject of the upcoming movie 'Concussion' starring Will Smith.
UC President Janet Napolitano listens to the first class of UC Global Food Initiative student fellows discuss their projects at Masumoto Family Farm in Del Rey.
UC Newsroom |

UC students awarded Global Food Initiative fellowships

The 44 fellows, representing all 10 UC campuses, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources and Berkeley Lab, will help advance the systemwide initiative.