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UC Newsroom |
Coming of age in a warming world: How UC students are turning climate anxiety into action
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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.
UC Berkeley |
Scientists devise molecular lock and key to control GMOs
Bioengineers 'put ignition switch onto a handful of the bacteria’s essential genes' to prevent their accidental escape.
UC Irvine |
A third of world's biggest groundwater basins are in distress
Reserves are likely far smaller than previously thought, and some may have only decades left before running dry.
UC Santa Barbara |
From data to tomato
UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis and PowWow Energy receive funding from the California Energy Commission to deploy method to measure groundwater use and to help growers deal with state's water crisis.
UC Davis |
Craft-brewing leader gives $1M to enhance UC Davis brewing facility
The gift from Carlos Alvarez, founder and owner of The Gambrinus Co., will fund new brewing and laboratory equipment at UC Davis to create the brewery of the future.
UC Berkeley via The Conversation |
Health care cost-sharing prompts consumers to slash medical spending
Consumers appear to cut their medical care spending when deductibles go up, even when it doesn't make any sense.
Lawrence Berkeley Lab |
Leaving on a biofueled jet plane
Researchers develop a process to create drop-in aviation biofuel that won't gel at the low temperatures of the stratosphere.
UC Riverside |
California leads on immigration reform, state citizenship
Public policy experts see White House taking a back seat to states on immigrant integration in the absence of congressional action.
UC Newsroom |
Eight UC researchers named Pew scholars
Early-career scientists, including ones from UC's Berkeley, Irvine, Merced, San Diego and San Francisco campuses, will be doing research in the biomedical sciences and cancer.
UC Newsroom |
Pitch perfect: UC alums take stage at Women's World Cup
Five players and one coach have UC ties at the international soccer tournament, including three key U.S. players.
UC Newsroom |
Against the odds, chemistry grad finds a path out of poverty
By the time he was 6, Rene Amel Peralta was already working full time in construction and odds jobs in Mexico, just trying to survive. By 13, he and his sister had been abandoned by their only parent and had made the treacherous journey across the border.
But…
UC Newsroom |
New UC grads share tales of triumph
As UC's newly minted grads look forward to embarking on a bright new chapter, we profile a few whose extraordinary grit and determination brought them to the place they are today.
UC Newsroom |
Newly minted UC Merced graduate completes path from career to college
On the 10-year-old UC Merced campus, Tamela Adkins is as veteran as they come.
The emergency preparedness manager was among the first employees at the newest UC campus when it opened its doors on Sept. 5, 2005. Last month, the 53-year-old became one of its…