UC Newsroom |
UC celebrates Food Day with buffet of activities
Across the UC system, Food Day participation will include lectures, discussions, film screenings, farmers markets, food demonstrations and special dining menus.
UC Newsroom |
UC to host technology summit
Summit will convene educators and industry experts around enhancing the student experience.
UC Davis |
Fish survival depends on these dams
New tool identifies almost 200 dams — including some of California's largest — as having flows that may be too low to sustain healthy fish populations.
UC Merced |
Solar power purchase sets stage for total renewable energy use
UC Merced will get 75 percent of its power from renewable sources by the end of 2016, and is on its way to being 100 percent renewably powered by then.
UC Newsroom |
Six UC members elected to Institute of Medicine
New members include representatives of four UC campuses: Berkeley, UCLA, San Diego, San Francisco.
UC San Francisco |
Genetic variant protects some Latina women from breast cancer
Originating from indigenous Americans, variant reduces risk by 40 to 80 percent.
UC Newsroom |
Honors for faculty, students
Riverside English professor is a finalist for the prestigious National Book Award in Poetry; Santa Cruz grad students' interactive fiction honored at IndieCade games festival.
UC Davis |
Building global food security through produce research
$18.75 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development will boost international fruit and vegetable research.
UC San Francisco |
Sugary soda linked to cell aging
Scientists find shorter telomeres — the protective units of DNA that cap the ends of chromosomes — in immune cells of soda drinkers.
Lawrence Livermore Lab |
Lab, UC Davis partner to personalize cancer medications
Researchers are using biological accelerator mass spectrometry to see how cancer patients respond to specific chemotherapy.
UC San Francisco |
NIH launches course for life science entrepreneurs
Pilot program, based on a course developed at UC San Francisco, will help entrepreneurs commercialize their technology.
UC Newsroom |
Smoking's $18.1 billion toll on California
Despite declines in numbers of smokers, related diseases account for one in seven deaths in the state — more than from AIDS, influenza or diabetes.