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UC Newsroom |

Next up for UC’s Class of 2025? Building California’s brilliant future

From jobs to graduate school to giving back to the communities they came from, UC’s latest crop of graduates has big plans to make a difference.

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UC Newsroom |

Is college worth it? For University of California grads, the data offers an undeniable ‘Yes!’

Not only do large percentages of UC alums enter the workforce with no student debt, but their degrees deliver an array of economic and social benefits both for themselves and their communities.

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Naja Barker and classmates
UC Newsroom |

UC leaders head back to high school

UC leaders will deliver a college-going message to high school students around the state, as part of the annual Achieve UC effort.
Sophie and her 3-D-printed hand
UC Berkeley |

Engineers give a girl a hand

Eight-year-old Sophie doesn’t have fully developed finger bones in her left hand, but with the help of a CITRIS Invention Lab team, she is the new user of a 3-D printed super hand.
toddler and toys
UC Merced |

Toddlers can spy deception in others

Even tots younger than 2 can tell when someone's trying to pull a fast one.
Zachariae Isstrom glacier
UC Irvine |

Massive northeast Greenland glacier is rapidly melting

Breakup of Zachariae Isstrom could substantially raise sea levels around the globe.
young woman and cat
California Magazine |

Students increasingly bringing “emotional support” animals to college

Nobody claims the dorms are evolving into petting zoos. But animals are gaining a toehold (clawhold?) in Cal residences.
Cyclists in Davis
UC Davis |

Global shift to bicycling could save trillions of dollars, cut 10 percent of transport emissions

A global shift to bicycling would have a huge impact on the environment, especially in urban areas, and could save trillions of dollars.
kids in class with laptops
UCLA |

David Geffen donates $100M to launch school for grades 6-12

Geffen Academy at UCLA will serve as model for contemporary education, provide students access to campus learning opportunities and facilities.
Mme Delait, bearded lady of Plombieres
UC Berkeley |

Whiskers and locks: reading U.S. history through hair

From bearded lady acts to the Victorian practice of hair collecting, grad student Sarah Gold McBride is teasing out the meaning of hair in 19th-century America, and how it reveals evolving ideas about race and gender.
Ceres
UCLA |

A simpler way to define what makes a planet

Professor's new approach classifies 99 percent of all known exoplanets.
wedding rings
UC Santa Barbara |

Saying I do

Demographer chronicles how marriage has morphed into a means of supporting intensive investments in children.
smoggy Seoul, South Korea
UC Riverside |

A warmer world will be a hazier one

Computer models point to aerosol species increasing under climate change associated with greenhouse-gas-induced warming.
Kam-Biu Luk, Ian Agol
UC Berkeley |

Mathematician, neutrino physicists awarded Breakthrough prizes

Prize winners will discuss latest research during live-streamed symposium.