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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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UC Davis |

Invention helps California growers optimize water use

Technology developed at UC Davis is giving growers tools to help irrigate more effectively during the California drought and beyond.
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UC Santa Cruz |

Genomics institute partners with Microsoft to accelerate biomedical research

Partnership provides the institute with access to new computing, data storage and analysis capabilities.
Japanese American draft resisters at Tule Lake camp
UCLA |

Center shatters myth of 'quiet' Japanese Americans imprisoned in camps

Asian American Studies Center project collects evidence of resistance during the war years.
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UC Berkeley |

Virus in cattle linked to human breast cancer

Odds of breast cancer are greater when the easily transmitted bovine leukemia virus is present.
The Science Behind Hollywood Explosions
Fig. 1 by University of California |

The science behind Hollywood explosions

Nobody blows things up like Hollywood. Now, with the help of a tool called Wavelet Turbulence, filmmakers can generate realistic swirling smoke and fiery explosions that are more detailed, easier to control and faster to create.
BodyScan
UCLA |

Management alums turn fitness inside out

Riding the fitness craze, two classmates developed a business using DXA scanners that analyze the amount of fat and lean tissue one has.
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UC Irvine via The Conversation |

Stem cells could help mend a broken heart, but they've got to mature

UC Grad Slam winner's stem cell work aims to conquer heart disease.
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UC San Francisco |

Crunching numbers to combat cancer

National Cancer Institute grant of $5 million will fund a massive effort to integrate data from all experimental models across all types of cancer — moving the needle forward on precision medicine.
A desert hive of Africanized honey bees.
UC San Diego |

Study shows Africanized bees continue to spread in California

Africanized bees are continuing to expand their range northward since their introduction into Southern California in 1994.
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California Magazine |

California needs to up its forestry game

'Wildfire season' is becoming a year-round phenomenon. But there are steps local and state government can take to curb the burn.
Roland Winston, Director of UC Solar
UC Newsroom |

Sun and salt: how solar tech can help California’s drought

Researchers at UC Merced are turning to an unlikely ally to help solve the problem of water availability for California’s farmlands: the sun.  
U.S. Army veteran James Harris, an apprentice at the UC Santa Cruz Farm, finds working the soil is another way to serve. Harris joined the Army at age 19 after the 9/11 attacks.
UC Santa Cruz |

How military veterans learn to become organic farmers at UC Santa Cruz

Serving the community with compost, seeds and hard work.