UC Santa Cruz |

Film by UC Santa Cruz art professor nominated for Academy Award

UC Santa Cruz alumnus Steve Mirrione also receives Oscar nomination in film editing.

UC Berkeley |

Goodbye jobs, hello ‘gigs’: Nunberg’s Word of the Year

The word that's re-emerged with the decline of the traditional American job.

UC Riverside |

Music professor tapped for National Council on the Humanities

President Obama will nominate UC Riverside's Deborah Wong for the National Council on the Humanities.

Washington Post |

By day, he taught high school. Now he writes for Superman and the first Asian American superhero.

UC Berkeley alum Gene Luen Yang named new national ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress.

UCLA |

UCLA prof helps capture immigrants' accounts of their first days in America

First Days Project website enables newcomers to share heartfelt recollections of arriving in the United States.

UC Riverside |

One professor’s top holiday movies

UC Riverside media and cultural studies professor Derek Burrill offers his favorites. Warning: Not all these films are reindeer approved.

Orange County Register |

UC Irvine professor explains the science of 'Star Wars'

The Force, taken literally, would crush you, and light sabers wouldn't work.

UC Irvine |

Santa vs. superheroes

UC Irvine physics professor compares St. Nick’s powers to those of traditional caped crusaders.

California Magazine |

Architectural students reinvent the community center

Imagine a community center that’s not your typical chunk of cinderblock — instead it’s an architecturally avant garde space where neighbors gather to grow, cook and eat food.

UC Berkeley |

Whiskers and locks: reading U.S. history through hair

From bearded lady acts to the Victorian practice of hair collecting, grad student Sarah Gold McBride is teasing out the meaning of hair in 19th-century America, and how it reveals evolving ideas about race and gender.

UCLA |

World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 comes alive on computer screens

Modeling expert lets viewers marvel at Chicago World’s Fair that drew 27 million people from around the world.

UC Berkeley |

Irish president presses his case for ending world hunger

Helps launch Irish studies program at UC Berkeley.