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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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Elba De Contreras, the recipient of the 1,000th lung transplant performed at UCLA, along with members of her family and her transplant team.
UCLA |

UCLA Lung Transplant Program performs 1,000th surgery

The recipient of the donor lungs was Elba De Contreras, 59, from Goleta.
UC Irvine first generation military
UC Irvine Magazine |

Climbing the mountain

First-generation students provide a hand up to freshmen in a new peer-to-peer mentoring program.
Elise Brockett, student assistant, plants African vegetable seedlings at the Horticulture Innovation Lab Demonstration Center at UC Davis.
UC Davis |

World Food Day: Challenge accepted

UC Davis to host a number of events highlighting efforts to improve and increase the global food supply.
Neal Driscoll UC San Diego
UC San Diego |

New fault discovered in earthquake-prone Southern California region

Scientists discover a feature that may be helping forestall new quakes near the San Andreas fault.
UC breast cancer
UC Newsroom |

Beating breast cancer: The latest on prevention and screening

Some risk factors cannot be avoided, but there are plenty of ways to take preventative action.
Boys & Girls Clubs of America
UC Newsroom |

UC partners with Boys & Girls Clubs to open college doors for California teens

New Achieve UC initiative provides a bridge for underrepresented students to pursue a UC degree.
UC Riverside FarmShare
UC Riverside |

Fair trade foods and beverages star in Food Week events

A weekly farmers market on campus will be added to UC Riverside's lineup of healthy food options.
Produce
UC Food Observer |

Global Food Initiative making its mark

Initiative addresses how to sustainably and nutritiously feed a world population expected to reach 8 billion by 2025.
Mother's milk
UC Riverside |

The benefits of mother's milk

Breast milk can help protect premature babies, infants and moms as well.
UC Irvine |

Improving childhood health

UC Berkeley, Davis, Irvine join major federal effort to understand how our earliest years affect later wellness.
UC Davis phone wine
UC Davis |

Wine industry leaders optimistic as millennials opt for premium wines

It turns out young people are willing to trade in beer cans for a glass of wine.
Methyl bromide has been used by growers since the 1970s to control soil pathogens, weeds and nematodes. Pictured are pathogen-infected plants in a buffer zone where fumigants can't be applied.
UC Santa Cruz |

Pesticide predicament for California's strawberry growers

UC Santa Cruz professor examines challenges as popular chemical is phased out.