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UC Newsroom |
‘Miracle’ medicine, based in federally funded science, arrived just in time to save his life
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UC Newsroom |
7 world-changing UC innovations that emerged from federal research funding
UC Santa Cruz |
Slippery fault triggered monster quake, tsunami
Unprecedented 50-meter fault slip in temblor that devastated coastal Japan and caused damage an ocean away generated surprisingly little friction.
UCLA |
Assignment: assembling a portrait of Los Angeles
City project allows photographer to take an unorthodox view of Los Angeles.
California Magazine |
Quake alert? There'll soon be an app for that
Smartphone technology will make it easier to expand early-warning networks.
UC Berkeley |
Anthropologist honored for organ trafficking research
When Nancy Scheper-Hughes began monitoring the transnational organ-transplant trade, some may have thought she was off-the-mark. But a new award recognizes the positive public-policy impacts of this self-proclaimed “agent provocateur.”
UC Riverside |
Prenatal exposure to alcohol disrupts brain circuitry
These babies may suffer from increased anxiety and poor motor function, conditions typical of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
UC San Francisco |
Searching genes for drug reactions
UCSF School of Pharmacy is one of the first pharmacy schools in the nation to offer its students genetic testing for drug response.
UC Irvine |
Foot soldiers in the war on poverty
Students who volunteer with Global Brigades work in the trenches – sometimes literally – to make the world a better place.
UC Davis |
West Village: setting the standard for sustainability
The nation’s largest planned zero-net energy community racks up an impressive list of achievements in its first year.
UC Newsroom |
Stay here. Take classes there.
Cross-campus enrollment project makes it easier for UC undergrads to take online courses on other campuses.
UC Davis |
Grape microbes add to wine's distinctive terroir
The microbial communities living on the surface of grapes may shape a wine’s terroir — the unique blend of vineyard soil and climate of every winegrowing region.
UC Newsroom |
JFK: Fifty years on
Looking back at President Kennedy's assassination a half century ago.
UC Riverside |
License to ill
Firms that engaged in prior socially responsible behavior are more likely to then engage in socially irresponsible behavior.