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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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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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Satellite image, Hurricane Katrina in Gulf of Mexico
UC Irvine |

UCI, NASA researchers find link between Amazon fire risk, devastating hurricanes

Warmer-than-usual waters in the North Atlantic contribute to both phenomena.
Adam Burgasser demonstrates Learning Glass
UC Newsroom |

Ten projects win UC’s 2015 information technology awards

Ten teams representing multiple locations across the University of California won the 2015 Larry L. Sautter Award for using information technology to make university operations more effective and efficient, and to better serve faculty, staff, students and…
Stewie the cancer-sniffing dog
UC Davis |

Employing dogs to sniff out cancer

Pups will put their superior sense of smell to work detecting cancer, especially at early stages, in humans.
UC Berkeley
UC Newsroom |

UC campuses rate highly in world university rankings

UC Berkeley leads nine UC campuses in the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities.
Glenda Humiston (right) at a reception with UC staff her first day with UC ANR.
UC ANR |

UC ANR's new vice president shares vision

Glenda Humiston said she will look for ways to expand economic opportunities for farming industries and increase the number of advisors and specialists in UC Cooperative Extension.
Matthew Raiford, a 2011 graduate of the Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture, will be honored at this year's Farm to Fork benefit dinner, a tradition he founded five years ago.
UC Santa Cruz |

Fifth annual Farm to Fork Benefit Dinner opens new Cowell Ranch Hay Barn

The dinner is the inaugural public event inside the newly completed barn that is becoming the headquarters of the UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems.
Artist's rendering of Jupiter-like exoplanet
University of California |

Jupiter-like planet discovered outside our solar system

International team with multiple UC researchers pinpoints young, giant planet with characteristics shared by those in our solar system.
argentine ants
UC Riverside |

Among ants, the nose knows

The insects smell “ant body odor,” helping them distinguish intruders from safe fellow-ants in their colonies.
rebuilding in New Orleans
California Magazine |

Helping heal a hurricane’s scars

A decade later, Cal students are still keeping their pledge to New Orleans.
engineering student
UC Newsroom |

Partnership with HBCUs gives students a taste of grad school

As universities nationally struggle to recruit more diverse students to their graduate programs, one innovative UC effort is having noteworthy results.
male elephant seal
UC Santa Cruz |

Male elephant seals use voice recognition to identify rivals

In competition for mates, males recognize the distinctive calls of their rivals and avoid costly fights by remembering who's dominant.
two-spot octopus
UC Berkeley |

Octopus genome reveals cephalopod secrets

Researchers are closer to discovering the genes involved in the creature’s ability to change skin color and texture, and to move its eight arms independently.