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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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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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burger and fries
UC Davis |

Even those who know better find junk food irresistible

The sight of a burger and fries pushes our happy button, even if you know a salad is better for you.
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UC Berkeley |

Why humans have superior reasoning skills

It's all in the brain — a network that's key to analysis, memory retrieval, abstract thinking and problem-solving, and missing from other primates.
Dion Raymond and Lillie Hsu
UCLA |

New Discrimination Prevention Officers discuss mission, goals

Lillie Hsu and Dion Raymond have long-standing connections to UCLA. Their new positions are a key component to remedying bias, improving campus climate and strengthening UCLA’s commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion.
UC Santa Cruz |

Seasonal pattern of infections in deadly bat disease

White-nose syndrome fungus can infect an entire bat colony during hibernation, but surviving bats are able to clear the infection after they become active again.
UCLA |

African governments should target hot zones to stop HIV spread

Researchers have devised a plan they say would be much more effective in reducing HIV transmission than simply trying to distribute antiretroviral drugs to as many people as possible.
Rewritable paper
UC Riverside |

Chemists fabricate novel rewritable paper

An attractive alternate to regular paper, technology helps address increasing problems in environment and resource sustainability.
UC Santa Cruz |

Undergrads earn bronze medal in bioengineering competition

iGEM team worked to engineer a microbe to produce biofuel from cellulose.
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UCLA |

Life in America: Hazardous to immigrants’ health

Over time, the health status of immigrant groups tends to decline. Public health researchers are untangling the causes and promoting solutions.
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UC Newsroom |

How traffic jams affect heart health

Clogged interstates aggravate clogged arteries, according to research by a UC Irvine graduate student.
UC Newsroom |

Napolitano, community college leaders discuss efforts to serve transfers

UC President Napolitano met with community college representatives to brainstorm ways to simplify transfer process.
Thanksgiving foods
UC Newsroom |

12 things you didn't know about holiday foods

To highlight the UC Global Food Initiative, here is a sampling of holiday-themed UC food research from each campus.
UC Newsroom |

26 UC researchers named American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows

Campus and lab fellows are among 401 honorees for 2014.