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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 Haiti Initiative wins leadership award

UC president honors student group that has spent years helping Caribbean nation recover from devastating 2010 earthquake.
UC Office of the President |

UC gets stem cell grants

12 UC scientists awarded for research covering areas such as Alzheimer's, heart disease, MS.
UC Newsroom |

UC increases composting efforts

Campuses augment existing composting programs, educate people on use of the 'green bin' to achieve zero-waste goal.
UC Office of the President |

Artificial nose knows when fruit is ripe

UC Davis researchers are applying the same science used to sniff out illegal drugs to smelling and picking out the freshest melons.
UC San Diego |

Search for lost da Vinci mural

UC San Diego researchers make progress in search for masterpiece.
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UC Santa Cruz |

Tracking reveals hidden lives of elephant seals

New data on the deep-diving creatures include a record-setting dive more than a mile deep.
UC Berkeley |

Water shortages pit trout against vineyards

UC Berkeley study links higher death rates for juvenile steelhead trout with low water levels and vineyard acreage upstream.
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Response to UC campus protest

UC officials have released a draft report on how the university responds to campus protest and civil disobedience. The public is invited to comment on the report through May 25.
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Plastic found in 9 percent of 'garbage patch' fishes

The first scientific results from an ambitious voyage led by a group of graduate students from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego offer a stark view of human pollution and its infiltration of an area of the ocean that has been labeled as the…
UC Newsroom |

Conference celebrates UC's land-grant history

150 years ago, the Morrill Act gave birth to the University of California and secured the state's pre-eminence in research, agriculture and technological innovation.
UC Office of the President |

Initiative seeks to boost faculty diversity

UC Diversity Pipeline Initiative encourages UC underrepresented female postgraduate students to pursue academic careers.
UC Irvine |

Seeing how the other half lives

An exhibit at UC Irvine entitled “214 sq. ft.” re-creates a motel room occupied by a composite family