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UC Newsroom |
Coming of age in a warming world: How UC students are turning climate anxiety into action
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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.
UCLA |
Egyptologist gives new life to female pharaoh
No usurper, Hatshepsut was just really good at her job, according to new biography.
UC Santa Barbara |
UCSB's Shuji Nakamura wins Nobel Prize in physics
Nakamura, co-inventor of the blue LED — which made the white LED lamp possible — is UC's 61st Nobel laureate. Fiat Lux, indeed!
UC Merced |
UC Solar works to meet state’s renewable energy goals
Institute sponsors seminar exploring the solar industry present and future, and the many creative initiatives being developed by UC.
Lawrence Livermore Lab |
Ocean warming in Southern Hemisphere underestimated
Global ocean warming appears to have been underestimated by 24 to 58 percent.
UC San Francisco |
$17M award aims to improve clinical trials for traumatic brain injury
Department of Defense award joins universities, FDA, firms, philanthropies in partnership.
UC Santa Cruz |
Power of mountain lion's pounce
High-tech collars enable scientists to record the energetics of mountain lion hunting behavior, showing how they overpower large prey.
UC Newsroom |
Four UC faculty awarded National Medal of Science
Professors from UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco receive nation's highest honor for contributions in science.
UCLA |
Soon to become a minority in the U.S., whites express declining support for diversity
Many white Americans are becoming less enthusiastic about diversity and multiculturalism as the U.S. moves toward becoming a minority-majority nation.
UCLA |
Memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s reversed for first time
In a small-scale study, nine of 10 people with the disease displayed subjective or objective improvement in their memories beginning within three to six months.
UC San Francisco |
UCSF emerges as a global health powerhouse
Just a decade after UCSF Global Sciences was founded, it has become a powerful research enterprise, attracting leading minds to come solve some of the world's toughest health problems.
UC Berkeley |
Why we can’t tell a Hollywood heartthrob from his stunt double
Scientists have pinpointed the brain mechanism by which we latch on to a particular face, even when it changes.
UC Santa Cruz |
Astronomer Claire Max appointed interim director of UC Observatories
She succeeds Sandra Faber, whose two-year appointment as interim director ended in June.