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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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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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California two-spot octopus hatchling
UC Santa Barbara |

Octopus skin 'sees' without eyes

A new study demonstrates that an octopus’s skin possesses the same cellular mechanism for detecting light as its eyes do.
UC Newsroom |

UC medical centers rated high-performing hospitals by U.S. News

Four University of California medical centers are rated as high-performing in several common procedures in new rankings by U.S. News & World Report.
Screen shot, 'Of Kings and Prophets'
UC Riverside |

ABC picks up TV series developed by UCR scholars

Reza Aslan is executive producer of Biblical production 'Of Kings and Prophets'; Robin Russin is script consultant.
President Napolitano and Santa Ana HS student
UC Newsroom |

Napolitano brings college-going message to the halls of Santa Ana High

Inspiration and practical message shows students how to make attending UC a reality.
oar sits atop parched earth
UC Santa Barbara via The Conversation |

How climate change is making California’s epic drought worse

Studies suggest that climate change might give rise to a new climate regime, one in which the years of low precipitation will be accompanied by warm conditions.
Professor Ken Hiltner, UCSB's Sustainability Champion for 2014-2015, and a group of his students toured Goleta-based Fairview Gardens as part of his course “The Rhetoric of the Anthropocene and Climate Change.”
UC Santa Barbara |

A champion for sustainability

Professor Ken Hiltner, UC Santa Barbara's current Sustainability Champion, is spearheading the campus's Environmental Humanities Initaitive, aiming to engage faculty and students of all disciplines.
dried body of water
ANR via The Conversation |

California’s water paradox: why enough will never be enough

We are a land-rich but water-limited state, and increased supply leads to more demand.
UCLA |

Alcoholism drug appears to work for meth addiction

Researchers testing effectiveness of Naltrexone: 'Results were about as good as you could hope for.'
couple strolls through forest
UC Irvine |

Awe promotes altruistic behavior

The sense of something greater than the self encourages cooperative behavior.
UC Newsroom |

UC to Congress: Federal financial aid helps keep college affordable

Pell Grants and federal student loans are vital to UC’s success in enrolling and graduating significant numbers of low-income and first-generation students.
Monica Banda, a farmer in Zambia, stands in the middle of a field she planted. The field on the left is also hers but was planted using traditional techniques and seed. The fields on the right is a Zasaka field. Banda’s yield increased by two times after
UC Davis |

'Farmer-preneurs' improve crops in Southern Africa

A team of UC Davis grads, students and Zambian colleagues has built a company around simple technologies and practices that aid farmers in avoiding losses and growing more crops.
woman preparing for mammogram
UC San Francisco |

Women with dense breasts may not need more screening

Routine mammograms will suffice for many women unless they are at high risk of developing cancer.