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UC Newsroom |
A tale of Tinder wins the day at the 10th annual UC Grad Slam
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UC Newsroom |
UC graduate programs and schools lead the nation in the 2025-26 U.S. News Best Graduate Schools rankings
UC San Diego |
Computer scientists develop a simple tool to tell if websites suffered a data breach
No one — companies or nation states — is above big data hacks, researchers find.
UC Berkeley |
First step toward CRISPR cure of Lou Gehrig’s disease
Scientists disable a muscle degeneration trigger to extend mouse lifespans by 25 percent.
UC Santa Barbara |
How do we break our addiction to plastic?
More than 8.3 billion metric tons (9.1 billion tons). That’s the amount of plastic humans have created since the large-scale production of synthetic materials began in the early 1950s. It’s enough to cover the entire country of Argentina, and most of the…
UC Newsroom |
Can behavioral psychology help stop food waste?
Sustainable dining is a huge deal on college campuses today, and the University of California, Santa Barbara is no exception. In fact, for years they’ve been taking an innovative approach towards reducing food waste by using behavioral psychology techniques…
UC Irvine |
New drought index provides insight all over the globe
Keeping track of the climate just got easier, thanks to a new satellite-based monitoring tool.
UC Davis |
How driverless cars will change travel
Transportation expert Lewis Fulton weighs in on what roads will look like five, 10, even 20 years from now.
UC San Diego |
The amazing sensitivity of human touch
People can feel when surfaces differ by just a single layer of molecules, suggesting new avenues for touch technology.
UC Berkeley |
New center aims to nourish your empathy — with art
Dacher Keltner helps launch the art world’s first ‘empathy center,’ using the power of art to induce compassion.
UCLA |
Ancient fossil microorganisms indicate that life in the universe is common
Life was already diverse 3.5 billion years ago — and may be so elsewhere today.
UC Berkeley |
SF Mayor Ed Lee never forgot his Berkeley roots
The late Ed Lee worked alongside his graduate alma mater to tackle the challenges facing the city.
UCSF |
As genetic testing grows popular, UCSF clinic emerges to provide context
Genetics is only as good as the qualifications of the person interpreting it, says Dr. Bryce Mendelsohn.
UC Merced |
Former street kid fulfills educational promise with Ph.D.
Marcus Shaw turns his troubled past into an area of study and fuel for his own academic achievement.