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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 Davis |

UC Davis and Mars, Inc. to create specialized food institute

Innovation Institute for Food and Health will advance new discoveries in sustainable food, agriculture and health.
Santa Cruz Island, 1980 (left) and 2008
Natural Reserve System |

Clear out invaders, and let nature take its course

UC undergrads find native vegetation rebounding on Santa Cruz Island decades after eradicating imported grazers.
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UC Berkeley |

Human faces are so variable because we evolved to look unique

The amazing variety of human faces – far greater than that of most other animals – is the result of evolutionary pressure to make each of us easily recognizable.
aerial view, El Zotz, Guatemala
UC San Diego |

Capturing ancient Maya sites from both a rat’s and a ‘bat’s' eye view’

Drones and lasers help archaeologists study ruins hidden in Guatemalan jungle.
male students, UC Riverside
UC Riverside |

UC Riverside joins other universities, foundations to improve student success rates

Funding from six foundations will help the University Innovation Alliance share programs around the nation.
Serpent still from "Frontera!" animated film
UC Santa Cruz |

Film professor’s original animation debuts on PBS.org

Unconventional short film uses humor, hip hop and comic book-style animation to tell fascinating story of revolt in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
scarlet macaws
UC Berkeley |

Changes in farming practices can save evolutionary diversity

A new study by biologists at UC Berkeley and Stanford University highlights the dramatic hit on evolutionary diversity when forests are transformed into agricultural lands.
Sadia Saifuddin and Avi Oved
California Magazine |

UC’s two student regents seek common ground

For the first time, two students, one Muslim and one Jewish, will sit together as the two student members of the University of California’s Board of Regents.
UC Santa Cruz |

Teaching computers the nuances of human conversation

Computer scientist wants to make spoken dialogue systems more responsive to the user.
bollworm caterpillar
UC Davis |

Evolutionary biology key to tackling diverse global problems

Drug-resistant diseases, pesticide-resistant bugs and animals threatened by climate change are signs of human-driven evolution getting out of control. A multi-university team calls for solutions.
Murmuration art installation
UCLA |

Visual poetry breaks through boundaries of art

Professor Jennifer Steinkamp won a national award for her video installation "Murmuration."
Douglas Thorpe
UC Irvine |

The king of drones

Alum Douglas Thorpe has spent decades developing unmanned aerial vehicles for all kinds of uses.