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UC Newsroom |

UC medical school graduates take on Central Valley’s health care crisis

More than 700 medical students are earning their M.D. from a UC medical school this spring. The vast majority of these newly minted doctors — 73 percent — will stay in California for their residency training.

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UC Newsroom |

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 Santa Barbara |

More than meets the eye

When it comes to vision, the brain can perform more than one function without sacrificing time or accuracy.
movie theater
UCLA |

Oscar bait or pandering to the audience?

Researchers reveal the logic behind the tough decisions studios make about what films to make.
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Lawrence Berkeley Lab |

'Kelp Watch" monitors Fukushima nuclear contamination

Berkeley Lab collaborates on program to track nuclear contamination from quake-damaged power plant in Japan.
Golden Globe winners
UC Santa Cruz |

UCSC alumni glow in TV spotlight

Andy Samberg, Cary Fukunaga bring home Golden Globes for TV work.
UC Irvine |

Caffeine consumption enhances memory

A cup of coffee's good not just for waking up, but also for boosting long-term memory.
UC Newsroom |

Why UC is participating in Covered California

UC is helping to increase access to affordable health care.
Arizona meteorite
UCLA |

Space rocks hit UCLA

California's largest meteorite museum opens on campus.
UC Santa Cruz |

UCSC astronomers find bright young galaxies

The four galaxies are among the earliest and most distant ever discovered.
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UC Berkeley |

Suburban sprawl cancels carbon-footprint savings of dense urban cores

Reliance on cars and trucks generates much greater greenhouse-gas emissions outside urban core areas.
argentine ants
UC Riverside |

Battling ants with alluring pheromones

Pheromone draws pesky, invasive Argentine ants to insecticide, eliminating need for indiscriminate spraying that can harm the environment.
Denisova Cave excavation
UC Berkeley |

Neanderthal genome shows cozy relationship between early humans

Population geneticists find more evidence of in- and interbreeding between Neanderthals, Denisovans, other human groups.
UCLA |

World's earliest depiction of volcanic eruption

Professor confirms that Turkish mural is a representation of an eruption more than 8,000 years ago.