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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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UC Irvine fusion
UC Irvine |

UC Irvine alums approach the goal of fusion power

Their experimental reactor may be the most viable avenue yet to a limitless, carbon-neutral energy source.
UC Newsroom |

UC President Napolitano urges congressional support for university priorities

In a Feb. 24 letter to the California delegation, Napolitano outlined the university’s federal fiscal year 2017 appropriations priorities.
Maritza Cardenas
UC Berkeley |

Teen girls see big drop in chemical exposure with switch in cosmetics

A UC Berkeley study finds that using personal care products free of hormone disruptors makes a difference.
UCLA women in tech
UCLA |

A road map for advancing women in tech

New report by UCLA Luskin Center provides strategies for reducing inequality.
UC ANR |

Invasive superweed is target of new nationwide research effort

UC Cooperative Extension's Jeff Dahlberg part of team finding new ways to combat Johnsongrass.
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UC Berkeley |

Handel scholar discovers new cantata by a Baroque master

A UC Berkeley professor investigates an old manuscript and finds a new composition, to be conducted this spring.
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UC Newsroom |

Five things you should know about the new SAT

The class of 2017 will include the first high-schoolers to take the revised college entrance exam.
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UC San Diego |

Aircraft cruise atmospheric rivers to improve West Coast storm predictions

UC San Diego scientists take to the skies with a new method to make weather forecasts more accurate.
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UC Berkeley |

Bromances may be good for men’s health

UC Berkeley study of rats shows that stress can bring males together, findings that also have implications for post-traumatic stress disorder.
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UC Santa Barbara |

Do we have free will?

A study by UC Santa Barbara psychologists explores how a compromised belief in free will corrupts intuitive cooperation.
Amy Rowat teaches a popular UCLA course called “The Physical and Molecular Origins of What We Eat.”
UCLA |

Explore the future of food

UCLA's popular 'Science and Food' events return for fourth year, starting March 8.
The GrowRIVERSIDE conference will feature a tour of UC Riverside’s R’Garden.
UC Riverside |

Food policy conference planned at UC Riverside

Third annual event will feature speakers including the secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture and the vice president of UC Agriculture and Natural Resources.