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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 Merced |

Drones aid agriculture

UC Merced lab spurs students' use of technology to serve agriculture, environment, health.
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UC Berkeley |

Millet Project shows grain isn't just for the birds

Q&A with Amrita Hazra, who leads UC Berkeley's Millet Project team, with a Berkeley Food Institute seed grant and support from the UC Global Food Initiative's CLEAR subcommittee.
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UC Santa Barbara |

The shifting concept of home

New book examines how conventional nuclear-family-in-suburbia model has evolved into unique ‘lifespaces’ in 21st century America.
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UCLA |

New crusade for anti-bullying advocate

Story of the friendship between a stem cell scientist and a young athlete — and a message of encouragement for LGBT youth — is featured on ESPN.
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UC Irvine for The Conversation |

A teaching moment in the Ashley Madison hack

Why did people make their personal information so easily available to a company that facilitates cheating?
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California Magazine |

High-tech project will restore recorded Native American voices

Cutting-edge optical scanning technique developed by the Berkeley Lab promises to revitalize these old, fragile recordings. 
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Gladstone Institutes |

HIV particles don't cause AIDS — our own immune cells do

Virus turns host immune cells into suicide machines, using them to spread the virus and cause the progression from infection to disease.
UC Newsroom |

NIH grants to help turn discoveries into medical advances

UC Irvine, UC San Diego receive renewed Clinical and Translational Science Awards.
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UC Merced |

UC Merced enters second decade poised for growth

UC’s newest campus approaches its 10th anniversary with record student enrollment, ambitious plans for expansion, and a spirit of determination.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
UC San Diego |

Gift will launch Scripps climate center

$5M gift will seed Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation.
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UC Riverside |

Sequencing of barley genome achieves new milestone

A mainly UC Riverside group of researchers improves a resource used worldwide.
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UC San Diego |

3-D printed tiny fish do more than swim

Synthetic microfish set the stage for 'smart' microrobots that can detoxify or deliver medications.