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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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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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Joshua Bloom
UCLA |

Doctoral candidate wins American Book Award

Prize goes to Joshua Bloom and co-author Waldo Martin of UC Berkeley for 'Black Against Empire,' acclaimed history of the Black Panthers.
UC Newsroom |

U.S. News ranks 9 UC campuses among best in the world

UC Berkeley and UCLA make top 10 in magazine's new global university rankings that emphasize research prowess.
Sarah Funes
UC Berkeley |

Hell-bent on getting out the vote

Sarah Funes’ million-dollar question is how to get minorities excited about voting. The UC Berkeley junior says her political passion comes from being “Latin, a woman and disabled. I want to elect people who look like me.”
UCLA cogeneration plant
UCLA |

UCLA creates nation’s largest self-replenishing fund for green projects

Savings from new sustainability projects will be rolled over to fund future projects.
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UC Newsroom |

UC hosts tech summit

Tech summit draws UC and industry leaders to explore applications that build on the things that make college great.
UC Santa Barbara |

Aiming for a carbon neutral future

Representatives from UC campuses and research labs meet to discuss the ambitious systemwide Carbon Neutrality Initiative.
Brittany Maynard
California Magazine |

Brittany Maynard plans to end her life

In the face of a terminal diagnosis, the UC Berkeley grad has taken control of her life — and death.
Aindrila Mukhopadhyay and Heather Jensen
Lawrence Berkeley Lab |

Boosting biogasoline production in microbes

Biology and genetic engineering join forces to fuel production of a type of alcohol in E. coli.
UC Newsroom |

Spicy science: Producing hotter peppers

How hot do you like your peppers? Spicy pepper seekers, take heart: University of California researchers are studying ways to make hotter jalapeños.
Victoria Salas works on the UC Santa Cruz farm
UC Santa Cruz |

UC Santa Cruz has much to offer the UC Global Food Initiative

UC Santa Cruz — 'the Mothership' of organic agriculture — has much to offer UC's ambitious Global Food Initiative.
community gardeners
UC San Diego |

Former food desert now feeds a community’s spirit

San Diego residents are transforming a 20,000-square-foot vacant urban lot into a community focal point for healthy place making.
baseball pitcher
UC San Francisco |

What monkeys can teach us about pitching

New motor learning research suggests that 'muscle memory actually is something the brain is constantly relearning.