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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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UC Santa Cruz |

Five UC Santa Cruz students receive Global Food Initiative fellowships

Fellows will work to improve student food security, expand experiential learning opportunities and disseminate information on the campus’s work in agroecology.
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UC San Diego |

Butterfly wings under X-ray reveal insights about color

What makes these insects so bright and colorful? UC San Diego may have found the answer.
UC Riverside sleep memory
UC Riverside |

Naps can boost memory, study shows

New UC Riverside research finds possible missing link between sleep and improved recall.
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UC Merced |

Medical students reach out to create a healthier valley

A UC collaboration brings together future physicians to help underserved communities.
UC San Diego vessel biofuel
UC San Diego |

Ship voyages on 100 percent renewable biofuel for 1 year

A UC San Diego research vessel realizes UC's commitment to sustainability over 14,400 nautical miles.
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UCLA |

Nursing student, cancer survivor draws on experience to help patients

A 2016 graduate from the UCLA School of Nursing pays it forward to others.
UC Davis Mariah Watson
UC Newsroom |

A pathbreaker with a passion to lead

UC Davis' first black female student body president advocates for minority issues while uniting students around shared concerns.
UC Riverside citrus safety
UC Riverside |

UC Riverside teams up with citrus industry to fight epidemic

A new building will allow scientists to expand citrus greening disease research.
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UCLA |

Professor’s ‘big intellectual risk’ grabs eyeballs years later

A UCLA professor's study of the New Deal continues to go viral - but does anyone fully understand it?
UC ANR |

Hackathon aims to solve real agriculture and food problems

Apps for Ag event July 15-17 to be hosted by UC ANR and California State Fair.
UC Berkeley healthier choices
UC Berkeley |

Our brain activity could be nudged to make healthier choices

UC Berkeley scientists capture the moment-to-moment dynamics of how we make decisions.
Stephen Maxey
UC Newsroom |

From a life on the streets to one advocating for the homeless

Stephen Maxey never saw himself as college material — but the community of UC Merced saw otherwise.