UC Newsroom |

Each UC campus is among the best in the world, new US News rankings say

Four UCs make the top 25 and eight make the top 100 in a new global survey.

UC Newsroom |

Meet UC’s 5 new MacArthur ‘genius’ award winners

Four UC alums and one faculty member will each receive a $625,000 unrestricted prize, or “genius grant,” as 2020 MacArthur fellows.

UCSF |

How a UCSF team is giving Cronutt the sea lion a second chance with neuroscience

Cronutt, a sea lion suffering from toxic algae-induced epilepsy — a problem on the rise due to climate change — gets a shot at a better life.

UC Merced |

Artificial intelligence is for the birds

Researchers are upgrading their migratory tracking capacity by creating a model to recognize bird calls.

UC Riverside |

And now, the winner of the Ig Nobel Prize ...

Richard Vetter's work on how spiders terrorize those who study them nets him a parody Nobel.

UC Berkeley |

UC Berkeley played big role in Nobel Prize-winning work

Reinhard Genzel realized his mentor Charles Townes’ dream of exploring the center of the Milky Way on his way to his own Nobel Prize.

UC Davis |

UC Davis alum Charles Rice wins Nobel Prize

Now professor at The Rockefeller University, he shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.

UC Davis |

Which type of face covering works best?

New UC Davis research compares surgical, N95 and homemade cloth masks.

UC Berkeley via The Conversation |

6 ways mail-in ballots are protected from fraud

The mail-in voting process has several built-in safeguards that make it hard to vote fraudulently.

UCSF |

This diet is popular — but it doesn’t work

Research shows intermittent fasting is not effective on its own for weight loss.

UC San Diego |

Statins reduce COVID-19 severity, likely by removing cholesterol that virus uses to infect

Researchers discovered that cholesterol-lowering statins reduced risk of severe COVID-19 infection.

UC Newsroom |

New UC poll: Concern over current events could spur record numbers of young adults to vote

The state’s newest voters are paying close attention to the issues, and nearly 60 percent plan to vote early, most of them by mail.