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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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UC Office of the President |

Sam Hawgood biography

Sam Hawgood, the UC San Francisco Medical School dean who emerged from a national search as the top candidate to be the 10th UCSF chancellor after leading the campus in an interim role, is a highly accomplished scientist, educator and physician with a strong…
football players
UCLA |

Putting the brakes on concussion

Former Bruin, NFL players talk about their head injuries at event to educate parents, coaches and doctors on how to protect young football players.
centrifuge
Lawrence Livermore Lab |

Design standards for dams are effective against earthquakes

Computer modeling confirms that soil filters — long used as a safety net against cracks in the dam's soil — perform well in the face of strong shaking.
Nox-Out engineering team
UC Riverside |

Students invent device to cut lawnmower pollution

Device eliminates 93 percent of emissions from lawnmowers, which produce 11 times the air pollution of a new car for each hour of operation.
UC Irvine |

Satellites reveal possible catastrophic flooding months in advance

River basin storage data from on high are excellent indicators of overflow potential
bees on flower
UC San Diego |

Why ‘whispers’ among bees sometimes evolve into ‘shouts’

Some Brazilian bees warn would-be competitors that their prime source of food will be fiercely defended if they show up to the site.
UC Natural Reserve System |

Raising an invisible barn

Environmental art project at Sagehen Creek Field Station is designed to provoke questions about the presence of people in nature.
Tibetans
UC Berkeley |

Extinct human cousin gave Tibetans advantage at high elevation

Common ancestors of Han Chinese and Tibetans interbred with a mysterious human-like group and picked up a unique gene variant that later helped them adapt to a low-oxygen environment.
Janet Napolitano plants oregano with student Matt Orke
UC Newsroom |

UC launches Global Food Initiative

University aims to help put the world on a path to sustainably and nutritiously feed itself.
Disney electrostatic display
UC Berkeley |

Blind lead the way in brave new world of tactile technology

People are faster at navigating tactile technology when using both hands and fingers, and the vision impaired have an advantage over those with sight.
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UC Berkeley |

What monkeys tell us about our thirst for booze

Robert Dudley discusses his new book, the evidence that our attraction to alcohol is an evolutionary adaptation, and what this means for efforts to prevent alcohol abuse.
UC San Diego |

Marine bacteria are natural source of chemical fire retardants

Some natural compounds closely mimic toxic man-made chemicals that disrupt human hormones.