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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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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.
Joseph Martinus, UCLA
UC Newsroom |

UC celebrates Food Day with buffet of activities

Across the UC system, Food Day participation will include lectures, discussions, film screenings, farmers markets, food demonstrations and special dining menus.
UC Newsroom |

UC to host technology summit

Summit will convene educators and industry experts around enhancing the student experience.
Long Valley Dam (Stephen Volpin photo)
UC Davis |

Fish survival depends on these dams

New tool identifies almost 200 dams — including some of California's largest — as having flows that may be too low to sustain healthy fish populations.
UC Merced |

Solar power purchase sets stage for total renewable energy use

UC Merced will get 75 percent of its power from renewable sources by the end of 2016, and is on its way to being 100 percent renewably powered by then.
UC Newsroom |

Six UC members elected to Institute of Medicine

New members include representatives of four UC campuses: Berkeley, UCLA, San Diego, San Francisco.
UC San Francisco |

Genetic variant protects some Latina women from breast cancer

Originating from indigenous Americans, variant reduces risk by 40 to 80 percent.