UC Santa Barbara |

Vast collection of historic American music released via UC Santa Barbara Library partnership with Dust-to-Digital Foundation

Thousands of songs representing some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression would have likely been lost to landfills and faded from memory.
UC Berkeley |

Award-winning stories by UC Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program alums spur passage of two California laws on policing

California passes two laws to reform policing, due to stories developed at the UC Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program.
UCLA |

Jordan Chiles talks balancing her senior year at UCLA and competing on ‘Dancing With the Stars’

Find out how UCLA senior and Bruin gymnast Jordan Chiles has been juggling books, the balance beam and the ballroom.
UC Newsroom |

7 UC faculty and alumni awarded MacArthur ‘genius grants’

Since 2020, UC alumni and faculty have accounted for nearly 1 in 4 recipients of the prestigious fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation, which provides an $800,000, no-strings-attached grant to support the winner’s interests.
UC Santa Cruz |

At the crossroads of language and AI

As technology advances in English, a UC Santa Cruz professor is making sure Indigenous languages don’t get left behind.
UC San Diego |

What a class on Taylor Swift reveals about us

A UC San Diego seminar studies the pop icon in the context of fandom and culture.
UC Irvine |

UC Irvine finalizes acquisition of Orange County Museum of Art

The deal signals bold new chapter in Southern California’s cultural landscape.
UC Newsroom |

50 years of UC alums on SNL

Live from New York, it’s … the University of California!
UC Irvine |

Music as medicine

Study results show a significant decrease in pain and anxiety for those who mindfully listened to jazz, which could lead to a reduction in opioids for patients.
UC Davis |

UC Davis alum Joe Sasto is a rebel in the kitchen

The ‘Top Chef’ and Food Network star invites culinarians to break the rules in his first cookbook.
UC Santa Cruz |

Humanities students dive into Santa Cruz surfing history

UC Santa Cruz Humanities students immersed themselves in the story of three Hawaiian princes who introduced surfing to the United States in the late 19th century, using Santa Cruz to launch a global phenomenon.
UC Berkeley |

Is a second ‘Mona Lisa’ still special? What about the thousandth?

In a small village in China, artists create replicas of famous works of art. After spending six years there, UC Berkeley Professor Winnie Wong’s ideas of art and those who make it dramatically changed.