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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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Riverside Unified School District's produce is purchased fresh and whole from local farms and prepared in-house.
UC ANR |

Schools serving healthier meals for students

UC is conducting case studies of selected California schools to evaluate the effects of a USDA grants program; farm-to-school tours show firsthand the benefits and challenges of providing farm-fresh produce to students.
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UC Newsroom |

UC alumni fill Teach for America's 2015 ranks

Nearly 200 of Teach for America's current crop of teachers hail from UCLA, Berkeley, Santa Barbara and San Diego.
Wildfire in Sequoia National Forest
UC Irvine, UC Davis and UCLA |

Southland wildfires: two types, both raging

Santa Ana-fanned fires in autumn spread much faster than conflagrations in the dry summer months, but both will wreak more damage in the coming decades.
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Blum Center for Developing Economies at UC Berkeley and UC Newsroom |

Got a big idea? Save the world and win prizes

This year’s Big Ideas student innovation contest features nine categories, including the newly extended Energy & Resource Alternatives category, sponsored by the UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative.
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UC San Francisco |

Next-generation genomic tests ID brain-eating amoeba

New center aims to make tests more affordable and accessible to doctors.
Founders of Cowell College, UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz |

Tearing down the walls

Pioneering professors and staff at the fledgeling UC Santa Cruz campus challenged convention and traditional academics — helping to reform American higher education.
Gorete Borges Teodoro and Renata Teodoro, cover of Dreams Deported
UCLA |

UCLA students write book about how deportation hurts families

Student-written book, 'Dreams Deported,' is a project of a UCLA labor studies minor class and third in a series on immigration and the immigrant youth movement.
Alice Waters, Vicki Lynn Ruiz, Fedwa Malti-Douglas
UC Newsroom |

UC luminaries to receive National Humanities Medal

Food activist and scholars are among 10 honored for their work elevating the human experience.
Mark Lipson
UC Food Observer |

Q&A: Mark Lipson on organics

For more than three decades, Lipson has been intimately involved with the organic movement; he has recently returned to his roots at UC Santa Cruz, serving as a research associate with UCSC’s Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems.
Eko entrepreneurs Jason Bellet, Connor Landgraf and Tyler Crouch
UC Berkeley |

Alumni startup’s digital stethoscope green-lighted by FDA

Federal clearance sets the stage for unlimited clinical use of the tool by Eko Devices, a Skydeck accelerator-nurtured business.
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UCLA |

Promising new treatment for deadliest form of brain cancer

Method combines chemotherapy drug with adoptive cell transfer, in which a patient’s own immune cells are reprogrammed to target the disease.
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UC Newsroom |

UC campuses ranked high for entrepreneurship

AffordableSchools.net named five UC campuses to its top 50 Most Entrepreneurial Schools in America.