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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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UC San Diego |

Share that happy feeling via Facebook

Moods, both good and bad, are downright contagious through social media.
David Coil
UC Davis |

Microbes, prepare for blast-off

"Bugs" from Candlestick Park, the Liberty Bell and elsewhere will travel to space for research and a microgravity growth competition.
UC Newsroom |

Grad students, Napolitano showcase value of doctoral research

Students, administrators will visit Sacramento lawmakers to push for additional support for graduate research.
UC Hastings College of the Law |

UC president to keynote Hastings Law commencement

President Napolitano will address the Class of 2014 of the university's original law department.
UC Newsroom |

U.S. News ranks UC graduate schools among nation's best

Dozens of programs in business, education, engineering, law and medicine make magazine's annual rankings.
UC San Diego |

Biosensor will guard water supplies from toxic threats

Researchers plan to seek an outside firm to license the device for commercial sale.
UCLA |

Engineer's invention makes dirty water reusable

Gray2Blue system cleans up a home's gray water for reuse in irrigating the garden. It could save Californians billions of gallons of clean water every day.
Susan Straight
UC Riverside |

SoCal author is a Straight-up original

Riverside native and longtime professor Susan Straight will receive a lifetime achievement award from the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes.
UC Irvine |

Blood test reveals Alzheimer's risk

Participants in UC Irvine’s Orange County Aging Study took part in breakthrough research project.
UC Irvine |

Head Start makes a difference for disadvantaged kids

Children with little academic stimulation in the home stand to benefit most from the program.
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UC Santa Barbara |

Bitcoin or bust?

Scholars dissect the popular — and polarizing — digital currency.
UC Santa Cruz |

Alumna confirmed as NOAA administrator

Former astronaut Kathryn Sullivan is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's 10th administrator.