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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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UC Newsroom |

Napolitano: Public research universities are the engines of innovation

University of California President Janet Napolitano addressed the Association for Women in Science at the 2015 National Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
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UC San Diego |

Babies time their smiles to make their moms smile back

A toddler-like robot allows researchers to confirm their findings — and to help study non-verbal children and adults.
UC Riverside |

Botanist to study responses of trees, shrubs to extreme drought

UC Riverside professor receives National Science Foundation grant for research into survival mechanisms of plant species in California.
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UC Merced |

UC Merced humanities center aims to bring depth to water issues

Research center's interdiscipolinary projects will focus on water for the next two years.
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UC San Francisco |

UCSF Fresno marks 40 years of serving Central Valley

The campus is established as the largest provider of graduate medical education in the valley, where the population has grown faster than the number of doctors available.
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UC Irvine |

Biomarker for autism may aid diagnostics

Fragile X syndrome, other genetic types of autism are flagged; study also points to potential new drug discoveries.
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UC San Francisco |

Building human breast tissue, cell by cell

Zev Gartner's innovative work in 3-D tissue generation has earned him a spot on Popular Science's 'Brilliant 10' list of 2015.
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UC San Diego |

Tiny motors rev up to tackle rising carbon dioxide levels

Machines much smaller than the width of a human hair could one day help clean up ocean pollution.
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UC Berkeley |

Mobile app would bring earthquake early warning to all

How an early-warning system would work in practice, beginning with the first blaring alarm from a cellphone: 'Earthquake! Drop, cover and hold on! Strong shaking expected!'
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UC Newsroom |

First-generation students hear from faculty who have ‘been there’

As thousands of first-generation college students arrive on campus, UC Irvine faculty are helping them feel a sense of belonging by sharing their own experiences as being their family's first collegians.
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UC Riverside |

Secret unlocked to rice seed survival when underwater

UC Riverside geneticists are members of international research team that identified AG1, a gene that controls sugar availability.
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UC Davis |

Premium-minded consumers split wine market, wine execs say

Survey of wine executives to be reported Sept. 22; wine professionals also surveyed.