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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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UC Santa Barbara |

Mission impossible?

Humans just aren't cut out for tedious jobs like monitoring a computer screen — even if the consequences of failure are dire.
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UC San Francisco |

New research institute will explore brain’s extraordinary changeability

Initiative is part of $100M commitment to neuroscience by the Kavli Foundation.
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UC Newsroom |

UC campuses are top public colleges in World University Rankings

Times Higher Education includes eight UC campuses in its annual list of top universities.
Laura Esserman, UC San Francisco
UC Newsroom |

Five things women should know about breast cancer

UC San Francisco's Dr. Laura Esserman, who leads the Athena Breast Health Network — a collaboration of the five UC medical centers — offers insights into breast cancer.
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UC Santa Cruz |

Picture this: an app for blind photographers

Grad student designed audio tool to recognize and describe photos for the visually impaired.
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UC Riverside |

3-D printing could help save avocado and landscape trees

Technology has greatly accelerated research on an ambrosia beetle that is damaging trees in Southern California.
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UC Davis |

West Village marches toward zero net energy

Nation’s largest planned zero net energy community is 82 percent on the way to its goal.
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UC San Diego |

Uncovering the secrets of the adolescent brain

Big data study will explore the developing minds and brains of 10,000 children.
Juan Felipe Herrera
UCLA |

Juan Felipe Herrera is a voice for the people

U.S. poet laureate — a UCLA alumnus and UC Riverside professor emeritus — has been called an 'American original.'
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UCLA |

UCLA and VA launch program to enhance cancer care for veterans

UCLA-VA pilot project is nation’s first to offer veterans access to cutting-edge cancer clinical trials and state-of-the-art treatment facilities.
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UC among best public, commuter colleges in new rankings

UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC San Diego rated highly by College Factual and Money magazine.
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UC Riverside |

Making batteries with portobello mushrooms

Can mushrooms stop cell phone batteries from degrading over time? Engineering researchers at UC Riverside think so.