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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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Doron Comerchero is the founder and director of FoodWhat.
UC Santa Cruz |

Planting seeds, growing confidence

FoodWhat uses sustainable food, meaningful work and farming to help youth heal, grow and explore their identities.
UC San Diego robotics surgery
UC San Diego |

The operating room of the future

Engineers develop what will become an integral part of surgical teams: robotic assistants.
Lou Gehrig UC Riverside
UC Riverside |

Researchers show how Lou Gehrig’s disease progression could be delayed

Study could lead to new drugs for spinal cord injury, Alzheimer’s disease and some cancers.
UC Davis civil and environmental engineering professor Deb Niemeier is among 11 UC researchers elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
UC Newsroom |

11 UC researchers elected to National Academy of Engineering

Election is among the highest honors in the engineering profession.
UC San Diego nuclear explosion
UC San Diego |

First nuclear explosion helps test theory of moon's formation

Nuclear fallout and lunar samples are similar enough to suggest an impact could have created our moon.
UC Irvine hyperloop
UC Irvine |

Student-designed Hyperloop prototype debuts

Undergrad team in Elon Musk's competition set their sights on a test track run this summer.
UC Davis school lunch
UC Newsroom |

How California is reinventing school lunch

30 million kids receive school lunch daily — and UC's Global Food Initiative is helping ensure it's healthy and sustainable.
UC Irvine immigration
UC Irvine via The Conversation |

Immigration does not increase crime — it decreases it

Findings over as many as four decades demonstrate the economic and social benefits of immigration.
UCSF dementia odor
UCSF |

Poor odor identification may be early warning for dementia

New study suggests olfactory testing might be a simple way to predict disease a decade before symptoms occur.
UC Merced baby surprise
UC Merced |

Study: Infants recognize surprise in others before age 2

New research shows children's understanding begins in half the time previously thought.
pride UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Barbara |

Pride — virtue or vice?

Researchers explain why this emotion may have earned a bad rap.
UC San Diego broadband absorber
UC San Diego |

'Near-perfect' broadband absorber invented

New technology could triple solar cell efficiencies and keep buildings cool.