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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 Irvine via The Conversation |

Stem cells could help mend a broken heart, but they've got to mature

UC Grad Slam winner's stem cell work aims to conquer heart disease.
data sheet and stethoscope
UC San Francisco |

Crunching numbers to combat cancer

National Cancer Institute grant of $5 million will fund a massive effort to integrate data from all experimental models across all types of cancer — moving the needle forward on precision medicine.
A desert hive of Africanized honey bees.
UC San Diego |

Study shows Africanized bees continue to spread in California

Africanized bees are continuing to expand their range northward since their introduction into Southern California in 1994.
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California Magazine |

California needs to up its forestry game

'Wildfire season' is becoming a year-round phenomenon. But there are steps local and state government can take to curb the burn.
Roland Winston, Director of UC Solar
UC Newsroom |

Sun and salt: how solar tech can help California’s drought

Researchers at UC Merced are turning to an unlikely ally to help solve the problem of water availability for California’s farmlands: the sun.  
U.S. Army veteran James Harris, an apprentice at the UC Santa Cruz Farm, finds working the soil is another way to serve. Harris joined the Army at age 19 after the 9/11 attacks.
UC Santa Cruz |

How military veterans learn to become organic farmers at UC Santa Cruz

Serving the community with compost, seeds and hard work.
elderly women (iStock)
UCLA |

Gut bacteria could hold key to fountain of youth

Keeping intestinal bacteria in balance could help delay the onset of age-related diseases.
UCLA senior Grant Guess (right) and farmer Thomas Bodzrenou hold giant land snails that will be bred, raised and sold to local markets and restaurants. The snails are the latest venture that Guess has launched to benefit a school for children with disabil
UCLA |

Grass-cutters, mushrooms and giant land snails

UCLA senior creates sustainable farm projects to help children with disabilities in Togo, West Africa.
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn pictured on Friday, Sept. 4 awaiting the pouring of concrete at the entrance and along the west side.
UC Santa Cruz |

Pie potluck, barn dance mark Cowell Ranch Hay Barn dedication

Barn to house teaching, office, event space and headquarters for the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at UC Santa Cruz.
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UC Berkeley |

Single protein at the root of dengue's virulence

Blocking this protein may prevent the virus' lethal effects, and ultimately may lead to a vaccine.
Tracy Kahn, UC Riverside
UC Riverside |

Citrus Variety Collection to be maintained in perpetuity

$1 million endowment from Givaudan will allow for the creation of endowed chair position to support and maintain collection.
Bryan-Morris Ranch manager Jim Morris stands in a flooded alfalfa field along the Scott River in Siskiyou County.
UC Davis |

Flooding farms in winter may help replenish groundwater

UC Davis researchers are encouraged by early results from tests to see if deliberately flooding farmland in winter can replenish aquifers without harming crops or affecting drinking water.