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UC Newsroom |

Coming of age in a warming world: How UC students are turning climate anxiety into action

How do UC students think about their futures, knowing that the climate they were born into will probably look a whole lot different than the one they grow old in?

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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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The team that created Tabla, a device that detects pneumonia using sound waves and a stethoscope, received seed funding from Big Ideas@Berkeley to support its project.
UC Berkeley |

Big Ideas pitch day: seeding the future

Student innovation competition inspires big ideas from across the UC system and beyond.
UC Grad Slam Leah Foltz
UC Santa Barbara |

The elevator pitch perfected

Leah Foltz wins UC Santa Barbara's competition with a presentation on fixing blindness with your own cells.
Food label
UCLA |

What does 'healthy' mean when it comes to food?

UCLA dietitian Dana Hunnes gives her expert opinion on this tricky question.
UCR researchers are uncovering hidden histories to help California Citrus State Historic Park tell a more inclusive story of the region’s citrus industry and use creative means to draw attention to it. This image is from “Manos, Espaldas y Blossoms (2017)
UC Riverside |

Sweet and sour stories of citrus

May 6 festival will unveil progress to cultivate inclusive histories at Riverside's California State Citrus Historic Park.
Sabertooth UCLA
UCLA |

Hunting with saber-toothed cats in California

An injury pattern in fossils gives an intimate look at how the animal brought down its prey.
Female cancer patient
UC Davis |

Second cancers deadlier in young patients

Findings may account for relatively poor outcomes.
UC Irvine rocket
UC Irvine |

The first university to launch a rocket into space

UC Irvine aims to reach the stars with a $1M gift.
UC San Diego Jade pendant
UC San Diego |

A pendant fit for a king

One of the largest Mayan jades found to date, containing a historical text, is discovered.
UC Riverside |

Study to explore HIV and aging

UC Riverside's Brandon Brown will lead two-year project funded by Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
Kim and Jack Johnson helped to launch UC Santa Barbara's Edible Campus Program in 2015 with a tree-planting event at Storke Tower.
UC Santa Barbara |

Taking root

Alumni Kim and Jack Johnson team with UC Santa Barbara's Edible Campus Program on a teaching farm.
Tomatoes dried in the chimney solar dryer, during an experiment led by Michael Reid and Jim Thompson at the Horticulture Innovation Lab Demonstration Center at UC Davis.
UC Davis |

Low-cost tool helps improve global nutrition, boost farmers' income

UC Davis researchers' invention measures food dryness to help prevent mold, a pervasive problem in developing countries.  
UCLA SCOTUS clinic
UCLA |

UCLA Law Clinic wins US Supreme Court case

Case may not have made it to SCOTUS if not for the clinic, says professor who makes debut in front of the Court.