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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 Irvine |

Scientists partner with Under Armour to create squidlike fabric for self-regulating thermal comfort

Scientists partner with Under Armour to create a new fabric that lets wearers regulate their personal thermal comfort.
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UC Berkeley |

Poverty-level wages cost U.S. taxpayers $153 billion every year

While the U.S. economy rebounds, persistent low wages are costing taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars in public support to working families,
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UC Newsroom |

UC expands TES college road map

Program provides California public high school students with transcripts to help them plan and prepare for college.
UCLA |

Faculty approve undergraduate diversity requirement

Policy takes effect for freshmen entering UCLA College this fall and transfer students entering in fall 2017.
Dana Taylor picks up her produce at inaugural FarmShare event.
UC Riverside |

From farm to home

UC Riverside's FarmShare kicks off with a strong start.
UC Newsroom |

UC scholars win Guggenheim fellowships

Thirteen fellows from seven campuses are among the newly named honorees for 2015.
UC Davis |

Art that sold California's agriculture

With all the ways to tell the story of California agriculture, few are as picturesque as one collection in the UC Davis University Library.
UC President Janet Napolitano
UC Riverside |

Napolitano addresses myths about UC

UC president asks Riverside business leadership to support state budget augmentation for higher education.
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UC Newsroom |

UC tackles California water security

Researchers forge strategies to accurately estimate snowpack, soil moisture and surface-water volumes, and improve monitoring of groundwater.
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UC San Diego |

Brain scans hint at autistic toddlers' language development

Why do some children's language skills progress, and others' falter? Differences in brain activation may explain why.
Martin Casado
Lawrence Livermore Lab |

The accidental entrepreneur

Martin Casado goes from Lawrence Livermore Lab researcher to billionaire security software developer.
Leonard Irving-Thomas
UC Berkeley |

Oakland teen debates his way from the streets to Cal

A national debate champion from Oakland is slated to attend UC Berkeley in the fall. But he wasn't always at the top of his game.