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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.

Four graduates in robes and stoles hold their caps and smile at the camera

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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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UC Merced break ground
UC Merced |

UC Merced kicks off historic $1.3B expansion

New project to infuse $1.9 billion into the local economy and double campus size.
UC San Diego Zero Carbon
UC San Diego |

Achieving a zero carbon future

New initiative is determined to radically reinvent the electric power grid.
Low-income communities of color are often deprived of opportunities to sustain healthy eating and active living.
UC Riverside |

Targeting the root cause of childhood obesity

Low-income communities of color grow healthier through community organizing.
A Japanese beetle munches a leaf.
UC Davis |

Diversity as natural pesticide

Why insect pests love monocultures, and how plant diversity could change that.
UC Irvine Mars hero
UC Irvine |

Travel to Mars, risk dementia

Study raises questions about long-term brain health after extended spaceflights.
UC Riverside arctic bee
UC Riverside Magazine |

Hunt for the Arctic bumblebee

An elusive bee could teach us about climate change in one of the least-understood environments on Earth.
DNA art
UC Newsroom |

NIH Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program expands to California

UC-led consortium will help recruit million-person cohort at center of federal effort.
UC Davis agroforestry
UC Newsroom |

How scientists are taking on the global food crisis

Amid a changing climate, researchers race to develop staple crops that resist heat, drought and disease.
Sharon Gray UC Davis
UC Davis |

Sharon Gray’s mentorship lives on

Special fund aims to foster exchange with country where the postdoctoral student lost her life.
sickle cell
UC Berkeley |

Gene editing marks key step toward sickle cell cure

Repairing the sickle cell mutation in stem cells holds promise for new treatment.
Google UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz |

The more you Google, the more likely you are to keep Googling

"Let me Google that for you" may not be so good for us after all.
This year's class of UC Global Food Initiative student fellows includes returning fellows (left) Hannah Malan of UCLA and Holly Mayton of UC Riverside, who participated last spring in a GFI fellows' field trip to Full Belly Farm in the Capay Valley.
UC Newsroom |

Student fellows help shape future of food

This year's class of 55 UC Global Food Initiative student fellows includes 14 returnees.