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A new (and surprising) way to use solar panels

In the middle of California's Central Valley, a new way to use solar panels could change how we think about clean energy and water. It’s a simple idea that people have talked about for decades, but only now is it finally being tested in real life.

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How UC students are unlocking the voting power of California youth

Inspired by the 1964 Freedom Summer Project to register Black voters in the South, UC Freedom Summer mobilizes young voters across California to unlock the voting power of their own communities.
Jessa Fate Bayudan, a UCLA student involved in Freedom Summer, knocks on doors to register voters in Delano
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Five minutes that could shape your future: Register now so you can vote in November.

Register online by Oct. 24 in California to take part in the upcoming 2022 election on Nov. 8.
Stuart Freedman in the early 1970s with the experimental apparatus he and John Clauser used to test “spooky action at a distance.”
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Physics Nobel recognizes UC Berkeley experiment on ‘spooky action at a distance’

John F. Clauser and the late Stuart Freedman carried out the first experiment to show the ‘weirdness’ of quantum physics.
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‘Peace doesn't come from the sky’: Dalai Lama advocates for togetherness as he receives Spendlove Prize

A special recognition over a decade in the making was celebrated this month as His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama was awarded the Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance.

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