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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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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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UCLA |

Dentist shortage bites California

More new dentists choose to practice out of state; the lingering recession, the elimination of Medicaid dental reimbursements and a glut of established dentists in wealthier, populated areas are among the reasons why.
UC Santa Cruz |

Lick's Automated Planet Finder: first robotic telescope for planet hunters

In its first months of operation, the APF has found two new planetary systems, giving astronomers a taste of planetary riches to come.
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California Magazine |

Philosophy's popularity soars

Discipline's devotees find it’s more than ‘an interesting path to poverty.’
UCLA |

Students use alternative spring break to grow

There are plenty of UCLA students who are spending the week of spring break enhancing their suntans and frolicking at traditional meccas of fun to decompress. But spring break also represents another kind of opportunity for students who have opted to travel…
UC Santa Cruz |

Exxon Valdez oil spill was a turning point for biologist

On the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Terrie Williams reflects on the lessons learned and continues her work training responders for the next oil spill disaster.
Artist's rendering, Thirty Meter Telescope
UC Newsroom |

Thirty Meter Telescope will be a most powerful eye on the sky

UC places a financial stake in the development and operation of the Thirty Meter Telescope, which will be the largest, most powerful telescope of its kind.
UC Davis |

Plankton make scents for seabirds and a cooler planet

Top predators of the Southern Ocean are tied both to the health of the ocean ecosystem and to global climate regulation through a mutual relationship with phytoplankton.
Jonas Salk
UC San Diego |

UCSD to house Jonas Salk's papers

Family of polio vaccine pioneer donates personal papers to the UC San Diego library.
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UC Davis |

Potential lung cancer vaccine shows renewed promise

In mouse studies, an investigational cancer vaccine boosted immune response and reduced the number of tumors.
UC Irvine's Mamadou Ndiaye and Obama cutout
UC Irvine |

President Obama to speak at UC Irvine commencement celebration

Months of petitioning paid off: President Obama will speak at UC Irvine's commencement this spring.
real and faked pain
UC San Diego |

Faking pain? Can't fool a computer

Humans may think that grimace is genuine, but a computer-vision system can detect clues that give away the ploy.
Neil Garg and students
UCLA Magazine |

Mix chemistry, YouTube and a special teacher for a magical reaction

An award-winning teacher, professor Neil Garg has found new ways to reach the next generation of scientists taking his non-nonsense organic chemistry class.