A grad student focuses intently as he slides a three-foot-long steel bar into a large apparatus made of tubes and wires, in a lab full of similar such apparatuses.

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Critical research hangs in the balance as UC faces unprecedented federal threats

Explore some of the research happening at UC that’s poised to deliver transformative benefits to the American people.

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12 foods you couldn’t live without — brought to you by the University of California

Across university farms and labs, and in partnership with growers and ranchers around the state, research from the University of California is at the root of the nation’s abundance.

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Phil Berman
UC Santa Cruz |

Persistence yields progress in AIDS vaccine research

Veteran researcher has developed a new approach based on an old vaccine and recent advances in HIV immunology.
UC Davis |

UC Davis-Mars Inc. team advances to finals of FDA Food Safety Challenge

The finalists were selected for potential breakthrough ideas on how to find disease-causing organisms in food – especially salmonella in fresh, minimally processed produce.
adults lifting weights
UC Berkeley |

Drug perks up old muscles and aging brains

Drug perks up old stem cells in both brains and muscles of mice, pointing the way to drug interventions for humans that would make aging tissues throughout the body act young again.
Ivan Berend
UCLA |

Professor who taught history — and lived it — retires

Liberated from Dachau in 1945, Ivan Berend went on to become a key figure in Hungary’s transition from communism.
'City Life' mural
UC Berkeley |

New guide aims to help keep New Deal’s legacy alive

UC Berkeley-based project is dedicated to documenting the vast treasury of public art, park trails, schools, civic buildings and more produced during 1933-1943.
human brain
UC Davis |

Deep brain stimulation tested as treatment for cognitive changes in Parkinson's

Parkinson’s disease profoundly affects learning and memory as it progresses, and there currently are no good treatments for these aspects of the disease.
young girl
UC Davis |

Gender differences in the autistic brain

Girls with autism show distinct differences in their brains and behavior, compared with autistic boys and with normally developing girls.
Vintage postcard, 101 Ranch
UCLA |

Rethinking the history of the American West

Stephen Aron reveals how Manifest Destiny influenced the Nazis and talks about the evolution of scholarship about the West.
Women in computing photo illustration (iStock)
UCLA |

Finding strategies to recruit, retain women, minorities as computer majors

Tech companies are funding research to find strategies to recruit and retain women and minorities in computer science majors.
Scientists warn that humans have been depleting soil at rates that are orders of magnitude greater than our current ability to replenish it. They say that fixing this imbalance is critical to global food security over the next century.
UC Berkeley |

Soil depletion threatens global food security

If trajectory does not change, soil erosion, combined with effects of climate change, will present huge risk to global food security over next century, soil scientists at UC Berkeley and UC Merced warn.
Aileen Suzara presents Bahay Kubo: Kitchen Gardens of Living Tradition at the Big Ideas 2015 Grand Prize Pitch Day
UC Berkeley |

Big Ideas@Berkeley announces contest winners

The student innovation received a record number of applications from 201 teams representing more than 700 students across nine UC campuses and 17 other universities, including 41 applications for the new Food System Innovations category.
A new vaccine developed by veterinary immunologist Jeff Stott shows promise for preventing foothill abortion disease, which kills calves before or at birth.
UC Davis |

Vaccine field trials for deadly 'foothill abortion' cattle disease expand

Thanks in part to researchers at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, cattle ranchers are one step closer to having a vaccine available to treat a tick-borne bacterial disease that kills cow fetuses.