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UC announces Native American Opportunity Plan

The effort is part of UC’s commitment to diversity and inclusive excellence.

Susie Kocher sits on a rock next to a tree bearing burns in the Angora burn area (burned in 2007) in South Lake Tahoe

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How UC research is helping California meet the challenges of the climate crisis

Scientists and researchers are working to help people across the state adapt to climate change.

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Jean Paul Santos holds antenna assembly
UCLA for The Conversation |

New antenna design could aid interplanetary communication

A small yet powerful antenna would allow the Mars rover to communicate directly with Earth, enabling much more data to…
Scarlet macaws eat hundreds of fruits a day.
UC Santa Barbara |

Caught in a complex web

A new general consumer-resource model spans the mathematics of a century's worth of food web models and provides a…
Ventura beach
UC Riverside |

Central Coast cities at significant tsunami risk

A quake centered below the Santa Barbara Channel could send inundating waves toward Ventura and Oxnard.
bowl of spinach
UC Riverside |

How clean is your spinach?

Mom was right about washing the greens: Researchers believe peaks and valleys in leaves could be key to numerous…
Selanops "gliding" spider
UC Berkeley |

Biologists discover skydiving spiders in South American forests

Biologists discover gliding, hunting arachnids in South American forests.
UC San Francisco |

Agricultural intervention improves HIV outcomes

Helping HIV positive Kenyans improve farming practices counters hunger.
California drought has hit the Central Valley hard.
UC Davis |

Drought costs California agriculture $1.8B, 10,100 jobs in 2015

The drought is tightening its grip on California agriculture, squeezing about 30 percent more workers and cropland out…
Satellite image, Hurricane Katrina in Gulf of Mexico
UC Irvine |

UCI, NASA researchers find link between Amazon fire risk, devastating hurricanes

Warmer-than-usual waters in the North Atlantic contribute to both phenomena.
Adam Burgasser demonstrates Learning Glass
UC Newsroom |

Ten projects win UC’s 2015 information technology awards

Ten teams representing multiple locations across the University of California won the 2015 Larry L. Sautter Award for…
Stewie the cancer-sniffing dog
UC Davis |

Employing dogs to sniff out cancer

Pups will put their superior sense of smell to work detecting cancer, especially at early stages, in humans.
UC Berkeley
UC Newsroom |

UC campuses rate highly in world university rankings

UC Berkeley leads nine UC campuses in the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities.
Glenda Humiston (right) at a reception with UC staff her first day with UC ANR.
UC ANR |

UC ANR's new vice president shares vision

Glenda Humiston said she will look for ways to expand economic opportunities for farming industries and increase…