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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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UCLA's Thomas Coates has been named director of the UC Global Health Institute.
UC Global Health Institute |

UC Global Health Institute names new leadership team

UCLA's Thomas Coates named director; UCSF's Craig Cohen, UC Davis' Patricia Conrad named co-directors.
Berkeley Lab e-cig study
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab |

Why toxic compound emissions vary in e-cigarettes

Researchers also identify two carcinogens not previously reported in vapor.
UC Davis Helps Empower Those Tackling Africa's Energy Challenges
UC Davis |

UC Davis helps empower those tackling Africa's energy challenges

Young African leaders are leveraging campus expertise to develop zero-net energy solutions for their nations.
Great works of art can remind students the brain is the home of memory, emotions and sometimes devastating illness.
UCLA |

Literature and film help teach students to understand the brain

Course combining anatomy, history and humanities provides interdisciplinary approach to studying neuroscience.
UC Berkeley |

With rise of leukemia in children, $6M grant funds search for causes

Researchers will build upon recent success linking risk of getting childhood leukemia to environmental exposures.
Francis Ford Coppola UCLA
UCLA |

Francis Ford Coppola tests concept of live movie-making with UCLA students, faculty

Award-winning director and alum workshops an innovative filmic technique.
UC Berkeley air conditioning
UC Berkeley via The Conversation |

The global impact of air conditioning: Big and getting bigger

Rising incomes and temperatures increase the amount of cooling units — and greenhouse gases.
UC Irvine spit lab
UC Irvine |

Spit: The diagnostic tool of the future?

A UC Irvine alum brings home his research on the health- and behavior-revealing properties of saliva.
UC San Francisco |

California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine announces new funding opportunity

Up to six projects will demonstrate the potential of precision medicine to help patients.
Pacific Ocean at Scripps
UC San Diego |

Researchers can now monitor global warming due to human activity in real time

Scientists find the human impact on global warming can be distinguished from natural variability.
UC Berkeley |

The secret history of America on Medium

A professor challenges students to share alternative stories of life in America.
UC Davis |

Using urban pigeons to monitor lead pollution

New study shows bird toxin levels track with those of children in neighborhoods they share.