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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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Eric Slessarev
UC Santa Barbara |

Soil pHertility

Researchers create global map of soil pH and illuminate how it changes between wet and dry climates.
The risk of bird flu transmission is higher in the fall due to the increased number of waterfowl present.
UC ANR |

Weather radar helps researchers track bird flu

The technology works best for tracking birds in the winter during feeding.
UCLA law SCOTUS
UCLA |

UCLA law clinic takes two cases to US Supreme Court

Law students, faculty prepare briefs on the merits.
SALTO UC Berkeley robot
UC Berkeley |

Wall-jumping robot is most vertically agile ever made

Animal-inspired creation may lead to better search and rescue technology.
David Arky white pill map UCSF
UCSF |

White wash: Biomedical research doesn't reflect diversity of American public

UCSF is working to ensure research is demographically sound.
UC Merced virtual reality
UC Merced |

Virtual reality system allows UC Merced to explore the world

New platform holds massive potential for research and collaboration, from Giza to the human brain.
UC Riverside Project Moving Forward
UC Riverside |

Bridging the vocabulary gap in schools

Language learning program created by campus educator is catching on around the country.
Football UCLA MRI CTE
UCSF |

Alzheimer’s and concussion-related CTE may spread in the brain via common mechanism

Research is first to suggest that chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a prion disease.
UCLA machine learning folklore
UCLA |

Researchers create computer model to tell fact from fiction on the internet

Sifting through nearly 2 million posts, their algorithm could identify an underlying narrative.
UC Santa Cruz Breakthrough Prize
UC Newsroom |

UC Santa Barbara physicist and UC Santa Cruz biologist named 2017 Breakthrough Prize winners

Two UC professors win the most lucrative award in science, with a third earning early-career honors.
UC Irvine alum Eloy Oakley
UC Irvine |

First-generation flag bearer

UC Irvine alum Eloy Oakley is first Latino to lead state’s community colleges.
UC Santa Barbara teacher classroom
UC Santa Barbara |

Teaching toward the future

Education professor receives a 2017 President’s Research Catalyst Award to lead a nine-campus consortium.