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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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BICEP2 and South Pole Telescope
UC San Diego |

Glimpse of Big Bang 'fingerprint'

Cosmologists detect curling patterns that appear to have resulted from the initial expansion of the universe.
UC Irvine |

Professor wins book award for Haiti memoir

Amy Wilentz is honored by the National Book Critics Circle.
Dave Wernick
UC Newsroom |

grad research day 2014

Grad students travel to Sacramento to share work vital to meeting the needs of the state and its citizens.
dry river bed
Scripps Institution of Oceanography |

Long dry spells ahead

By century's end, some parts of the world will have as much as a month less rainfall.
UCLA |

Older adults: Build muscle and you'll live longer

New research suggests that it's greater muscle mass — not a good body mass index — that makes older Americans less likely to die prematurely.
Marge from The Simpsons
Lawrence Berkeley Lab |

A conversation with Berkeley Lab’s ‘Pi Guy’

'The Simpsons' needed to know the 40,000th decimal digit of pi. David Bailey was the go-to guy.
Hermosa study teen and participant
UC Newsroom |

Taxpayer donations give cancer research a boost

When you file your taxes, consider supporting these programs — simply checking a box can help save lives.
UC San Diego |

Symposium examines NAFTA at 20

Art, culture, politics and economics intersect at Mexico Moving Forward event.
UC Berkeley |

What would Buddha do, economically speaking?

After students expressed discontent with the traditional economic model and a pervasive 'more is better' philosophy, professor Clair Brown developed a new sophomore seminar featuring Buddhist economics.
Selfiecity.net
UC San Diego |

What we're learning from selfies

All those self-portraits are opening our eyes to social trends.
Lake Tahoe
UC Davis |

Lake Tahoe's long-term clarity trending toward stability

For the last decade, the lake's iconic blue waters have stayed clearer than in past decades, but still haven't reached goals for clarity.
Asst. professor Jenny Yang with student
UC Irvine |

Stamping out STEM stereotypes

History of commitment to gender equity in science, technology, engineering and math is showing up in increased numbers of female faculty.