UC Berkeley |

Chancellor Carol Christ announces 2024 retirement, plans for ambitious year

After six years at the helm, Chancellor Carol Christ plans to retire next June. But first she's tackling a slate of ambitious goals.
UC Irvine via The Conversation |

Summer reading: 5 books that explore LGBTQ teen and young adult life

A scholar of young adult fiction presents a fresh list of LGBTQ ‘must-reads’ for the summer of 2023.
UCLA Magazine |

The Starship (Social) Enterprise

An award-winning UCLA academy is training the next generation of impact investors and nonprofit leaders.
UC Santa Cruz Magazine |

Bonnie Garmus: Chemical reaction

Alumna Bonnie Garmus, author of the smash-hit novel “Lessons in Chemistry,” drew on many lessons learned at UC Santa Cruz on her way to finding the formula for success.
UC Berkeley |

For top graduating senior, a pirouette from ballet to human rights

The 2023 University Medalist, who emerged from the pandemic and the pain of her father’s death to excel at UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center, aspires to be a human rights lawyer.
UCLA |

AANHPI Heritage Month 2023: Read, watch, listen

UCLA staff recommend books, films, music and more to celebrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
UC Irvine |

A 400th birthday bash under glass

A new exhibit toasts the 400th anniversary of the First Folio, a rare, first-edition Shakespeare anthology owned by UC Irvine.
UC Riverside |

Older adults may achieve same cognition as undergrads

Learning multiple tasks led to cognition improvements that got better with the passage of time.
UC Santa Barbara |

Harmonia Rosales recasts the Renaissance with West African tales from the same period

An exhibition of paintings that draw subject matter from the transatlantic slave trade and Yorùbá myths, originated at UC Santa Barbara, will soon visit Spelman College, an Historically Black College.
California Magazine |

Meet Zona Roberts: The grandmother of the disability movement turns 103

How Ed Roberts and his mother Zona changed the world.
UC Newsroom |

16 UC faculty awarded prestigious 2023 Guggenheim fellowships

The honor recognizes talented mid-career faculty who have shown exceptional creativity and scholarship in their work and exhibit further promise.
UCLA |

Creating a more inclusive beauty industry through science

UCLA doctoral student AJ Addae launched a company that develops cosmetics for people with darker skin tones.