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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 San Diego |

Initiative assists graduate students for careers outside of academia

UC San Diego's Gradvantage seeks to prepare scholars for a range of jobs in a changing economy.
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UC Irvine |

Precariously balanced rocks provide clues to fault connections

San Jacinto, San Andreas interaction weakens earthquake shaking near them, study lead by UC Irvine finds.
UC Santa Cruz ecologist Barry Servino suspects a warming climate might give southern alligator lizards an edge over their northern cousins.
UC Santa Cruz |

Edges of extinction

UC Santa Cruz ecologist Barry Sinervo studies dying species like a detective at a murder scene, hoping to help preserve threatened species.
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UC Berkeley |

Hunter or prey? The eyes are the key

Pupil shape — horizontal, vertical or circular — is linked to animals’ place in the ecological web.
Janet Napolitano
UC Newsroom |

President Napolitano to interview Salk biographer

Commonwealth Club event Aug. 19 features Napolitano in conversation with Dr. Charlotte Jacobs, author of "Jonas Salk: A Life."
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UC Santa Cruz |

Precision medicine initiative funds UC Santa Cruz pediatric cancer project

State initiative provides $1.2 million for the Genomics Institute's California Kids Cancer Comparison project.
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography |

Climate change causes timing shifts in fish reproduction

Warmer ocean temperatures affect seasonal cycles, study finds.
UC San Diego students
UC San Diego |

UC San Diego participates in Coursera Global Skills Initiative

Qualcomm Institute and San Diego Supercomputer Center online courses have goal to advance access to job-relevant skills around the world.
Alice Waters (left) tours the Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley with UC President Janet Napolitano at the launch of the UC Global Food Initiative.
UC Santa Cruz |

Q&A with Alice Waters

Chez Panisse chef and owner, a UC Berkeley alumna, will receive the Foundation Medal at UC Santa Cruz's Founders Celebration Fiat Fifty dinner on Sept. 26.
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Greater Good Science Center |

How awe makes us generous

A new study from UC Berkeley and UC Irvine finds that feeling small in nature makes us more generous to other humans.
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UC Riverside |

Flowers can endanger bees

Study by UC Riverside entomologist and colleagues shows flowers serve as parasite-dispersing hubs.
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UCLA |

Moral judgments soften with time, distance, study shows

People judge acts like lying, theft and assault to be wrong — but less wrong if those acts happened far away or long ago, UCLA-led research suggests.