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UC Newsroom |

UC medical school graduates take on Central Valley’s health care crisis

More than 700 medical students are earning their M.D. from a UC medical school this spring. The vast majority of these newly minted doctors — 73 percent — will stay in California for their residency training.

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UC Newsroom |

A UC degree launched Miguel Tamayo’s life as an aerospace engineer. Here’s how he paid for college.

Hear how one student paid for a UC education. 

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Sierra Nevada mountain range
UC Merced |

Can our forests survive the next drought?

Researchers try to discover how many dry years plants can survive.
Glass polar bear
UCLA |

Can artificial intelligence tell a polar bear from a can opener?

How closely do deep learning computer networks mimic the human brain? There's still a long way to go, psychologists find.
Mona lisa face at 3 angles
UC Santa Cruz |

The importance of being tilted

New findings show how a tilt of the head facilitates social interaction, with potential benefits for people with autism.
Paula Raffaelli in her car outside the Dilley detention facility for immigrants
UC Berkeley |

Iceboxes and jail: Helping immigrant mothers and children held at the border

A week with UC Berkeley lawyer Paula Raffaelli, who volunteered to help detainees navigate the legal system.
Alzheimer's disease as shown in a brain PET scan
UCSF |

Artificial intelligence can detect Alzheimer’s disease in brain scans 6 years before a diagnosis

A machine-learning algorithm diagnosed early-stage Alzheimer’s disease using a common PET scan.
Gopesh Tilvawala speaks to someone across a table
UC San Diego |

Graduate student’s steerable brain device wins big at inventors competition

Gopesh Tilvawala is developing a first-of-its-kind catheter to navigate tiny arteries in the brain.
UC Davis bulldog Moxie
UC Davis |

Bulldogs’ screw tails linked to human genetic disease

Scientists find the genetic basis for these dogs’ appearance, and link it to a rare inherited syndrome in humans.
A child looks at the camera from among a group of migrants
UC Santa Barbara |

Coming to America

Historical context helps explain the urgency of present-day Central American migrations.
Students walking on the UC Irvine campus
UC Irvine |

UC Irvine cited as a community college pipeline leader

A new report on the national goal of enrolling 50,000 additional low- and moderate-income students by 2025.
Colorful old man in a chair illustration
UCSF |

The mystery of the super-ager

Researchers are trying to figure out the secret to some elderly people's success.
Someone writing their New Year's resolutions
UC Newsroom |

How to rethink your New Year's resolutions (according to science)

The question-behavior effect, a cognitive quirk, can set your new actions up for success.
Plastic blag floating in water
UC Santa Barbara |

The international statistic of the year

Roland Geyer's much lauded finding is a sobering one: 91 percent of the world's plastic waste has never been recycled.