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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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UC Newsroom |

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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The Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, Russia.
UC Riverside |

The missing piece about Putin and Ukraine

Putin is immersed in Russian Christian Orthodoxy; his interpretation is incongruous with compromise, scholar says.
Lake Powell
UC Santa Barbara |

Do we need to revise our definition of drought?

Climate scientists reconsider the meaning and implications of drought — and whether we can return to “normal.”
Black mother holding her baby
UC San Francisco |

Mindfulness during pregnancy improves stress response for infants

This is the first known study to show that a prenatal social intervention may improve health outcomes in children.
Harold Lloyd dangling from a clock in the film Safety Last
UC Newsroom |

Why Congress is moving forward from turning the clocks forward

Changes to time, and routine, can mess with our sleep. That doesn't just hurt our physical health — it makes us lonely.
An older couple laughing at a carnival
Yasmin Anwar |

Sweet vibes between longtime couples are tied to longer, healthier lives

A new study finds that relationships with mutual surges of warmth, humor and affection bode well for long-lasting love and life.
UC President Michael V. Drake, President Emerita Janet S. Napolitano, Chancellor Gary S. May and President Emeritus Mark G. Yudof
UC Davis |

3 UC Presidents: Challenges, legacies

Chancellor May hosts UC Presidents Drake, Napolitano and Yudof at a colloquium on higher education.
Farmworkers in the field
UCLA |

UCLA Law students work to help protect outdoor laborers from heat and pollution

Research produced by those in the California Environmental Legislation and Policy Clinic has influenced proposed legislation.
Elephant seal pup next to its mother on the beach
UC Santa Cruz |

Elephant seals’ map sense tells them when to head ‘home’

Researchers found that female elephant seals know their distance from the breeding beach and allocate extra time to get back if they have farther to travel.
Brain illustration on blue background
UC Irvine Magazine |

Stemming the next public health crisis — this time, in mental health

Researchers help illuminate the complexities of the mind and find solutions to prevent a twin pandemic.
A microscopic image of KRAS-driven lung cancer (purple) in a mouse model
UCSF |

Treating tough tumors by exploiting their iron ‘addiction’

UCSF researchers tame notorious KRAS-mutated cancers without harming healthy cells.
Image of an ovary from a diapausing fruit fly showing arrested egg development.
UC Santa Barbara |

Putting stem cells on pause

Researchers describe a process for extending the longevity of stem cells.
Desert landscape with an old wooden sign reading, San Andreas fault
Columbia and UC Santa Cruz |

A slow-motion section of the San Andreas Fault may not be so harmless after all

A study suggests that the central section of the San Andreas fault has hosted many major earthquakes.