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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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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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Chicks like these are commonly vaccinated for Marek’s disease while they are embryos still in the egg, providing protection against the deadly disease, which is found in all poultry environments.
UC Davis |

Vaccines hitch genomic ride to ward off deadly chicken disease

Findings offer clues to immunity in human diseases.
UC Newsroom |

UC startup rides coveted Wave Energy Prize

Two-year competition to accelerate wave energy markets earns CalWave $500,000 to keep iterating.
UC Berkeley green leaves
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |

Crop yield gets boost with modified genes in photosynthesis

Researchers increase plant proteins that result in more efficient use of sunlight.
UC Irvine fireflies
UC Irvine |

Chasing fireflies from prairie to lab

A summer standby could help decode multicellular interactions in the human body.
UC Santa Barbara comet
UC Santa Barbara |

How to stop a comet

A physics undergrad devises a strategy for defending Earth from potential impact.
UCLA molecules Harris
UCLA |

UCLA identifies potential cancer treatment with fewer side effects than chemotherapy

Molecule appears to be effective in fighting breast cancer, colon cancer and leukemia.
UC Merced financial aid
UC Newsroom |

5 things every family should know about paying for college

Navigating college costs can be easier than you think.
Pluto UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz |

New evidence of Pluto's slushy ocean

Scientists get a surprise from observations made by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
UC San Diego phone swab
UC San Diego |

What molecules on your cellphone screen reveal about you

Your diet, medications and beauty products leave more of a fingerprint than you might imagine.
Napolitano Lois Wolk
UC Newsroom |

President Napolitano honors legislators’ and community advocate's commitment to higher education

Two state legislators and one community leader recognized for championing accessibility and affordability for California students.
UC Davis |

New UC Davis art museum welcomes thousands

Standing outside the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, as hundreds of people streamed inside on Sunday (Nov. 13), Rachel Teagle talked — and teared up — not about the grand opening ceremony that had just occurred at noon, but about what had…
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UC San Francisco |

UCSF, Governor Brown announce new precision medicine projects

Six projects selected to harness power of advanced computing to better treat and prevent disease.