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UC Newsroom |

Next up for UC’s Class of 2025? Building California’s brilliant future

From jobs to graduate school to giving back to the communities they came from, UC’s latest crop of graduates has big plans to make a difference.

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Is college worth it? For University of California grads, the data offers an undeniable ‘Yes!’

Not only do large percentages of UC alums enter the workforce with no student debt, but their degrees deliver an array of economic and social benefits both for themselves and their communities.

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U.S. Army marching band
UCLA |

In sync and in control?

UCLA social scientists find that marching in unison makes men feel more formidable.
Turceni Power Station, Romania
UC Irvine |

Existing power plants will spew 300 billion more tons of carbon dioxide during use

Study is the first to quantify how quickly these “committed” emissions are growing — by about 4 percent per year — as more fossil fuel-burning power plants are built.
Cary Joji Fukunaka
UC Santa Cruz |

Santa Cruz alum wins Emmy for ‘True Detective’

Cary Joji Fukunaga takes award for directing HBO drama.
UC Berkeley |

10-second warning for Napa quake

Scientists at the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory were alerted moments before Sunday morning's 6.0 magnitude temblor, courtesy of the ShakeAlert earthquake early-warning system.
UC San Diego's Geisel Library at night
UC Newsroom |

UC tops Washington Monthly campus rankings

UC San Diego ranks first for the fifth consecutive year, and UC campuses take four of top 5 spots in assessment of how universities serve public interest.
Emmanuel Saez, UC Berkeley economist
California Magazine |

The shy academic who diagnosed income inequality

You know about income inequality thanks to Berkeley's Emmanuel Saez, a John Bates Clark medalist and MacArthur 'genius" fellow who keeps a low profile.
GPS station, Inyo Mountains
UC San Diego |

Severe drought is causing the western U.S. to rise

The western U.S. is rising — literally — as water dwindles away. Scientists are using GPS technology to track the uplift from massive loss of water, estimated at 62 trillion gallons.
girls with cell phones
UCLA |

Are young people losing the ability to read emotions?

Children’s social skills may be declining as they spend less time in face-to-face interaction due to their increased use of phones and other digital media.
UC Riverside |

Professor hacks smartphone through common app

Weakness in the Android operating system was exploited through a very common app. Windows, iOS may be vulnerable too.
UCSD professor Hovav Shacham with body scanner
UC San Diego |

Study shows how easily weapons can be smuggled past body scanners

UC San Diego and other researchers find several loopholes in full-body X-ray scanners once used by the TSA and still used in courthouses, jails, and other government security checkpoints around the country.
UC Newsroom |

Alum, postdoc among game-changing young innovators

MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 recognizes professor, telecom developer with ties to UC Santa Barbara and UC Berkeley.
Chelsea Arnold
UC Newsroom |

Drying Sierra meadows could worsen California drought

Weather-related changes threaten key natural regulator of the region's water flow.