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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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UC Newsroom |

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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Darryl Wong, UCSC farm site and research lands manager, tills the new three-acre Quarry Field in anticipation of planting wheat before the rains.
UC Santa Cruz |

UC Santa Cruz Farm adds Quarry Field to further farming, education, research

Freshly tilled soil marks the start of the farm’s latest effort in growing food for campus and expanding the research and education work of the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems.
UC Riverside |

Blum poverty Initiative launches in fall 2015

Gift to UC Riverside from former chair of UC Regents will support effort aimed at solving poverty-related issues in the Inland Empire region.
Lick Observatory (Laurie Hatch photo)
UC Berkeley |

Google gives Lick Observatory $1 million

Funds will go toward general expenses, augmenting the $1.5 million the UC Office of the President provides annually for operation.
Steve Knapp, UC Davis' new strawberry breeder, checks out the campus strawberry greenhouse.
UC Davis |

UC Davis and California Strawberry Commission settle lawsuit, set new direction

As part of renewed commitment to a public breeding program that creates new varieties for California’s strawberry farmers, UC Davis announces hiring of new breeder for Strawberry Breeding Program.
The water study is part of a five-year project investigating whether community-based intervention can help prevent childhood obesity.
ANR |

Tapping into healthy drink choices

Low-quality water in rural immigrant communities could be prompting kids to drink sugary beverages.
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Lawrence Livermore Lab |

DARPA taps Lawrence Livermore Lab to restore touch to amputees

Lab will join collaborative research team that intends to build the world’s first neural system to enable naturalistic feeling and movements in prosthetic hands.
The Google Glass app and illuminator allow researchers unit to analyze chlorophyll concentration in a leaf without harming the plant.
UCLA |

Google Glass app helps scientists analyze plants' health in seconds

Scientists from UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute have developed a Google Glass app that, when paired with a handheld device, enables the wearer to quickly analyze the health of a plant without damaging it.
Lawrence Berkeley Lab |

Startup promises safe lithium batteries

Venture capital backs company — co-founded by a Berkeley Lab scientist —developing a battery using a nonflammable electrolyte.
carbon dioxide injection well
UC Berkeley |

One-two punch could make western U.S. carbon-negative

Combining biomass electricity production with carbon capture could enable power generators to store more carbon than they emit.
UC Davis |

Tobacco-smoking parents increase diabetes risk for babies

Children exposed to tobacco smoke from their parents while in the womb are up to two to three times more likely to develop the disease.
UC Merced |

Gift establishes UC Merced Presidential Chair in the Humanities

Anonymous $500,000 donation, matched by UC president’s new fund, will establish $1 million endowment to provide leadership and vision for UC Merced research.
UCLA alumni Rabbi Philip Posner, Robert Farrell, Helen Singleton and Robert Singleton
UCLA |

A salute to UCLA Freedom Riders and their history-making journey

Sixteen civil rights activists — all UCLA alumni — challenged segregation in the South in 1961 as Freedom Riders.