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Next up for UC’s Class of 2025? Building California’s brilliant future

From jobs to graduate school to giving back to the communities they came from, UC’s latest crop of graduates has big plans to make a difference.

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Is college worth it? For University of California grads, the data offers an undeniable ‘Yes!’

Not only do large percentages of UC alums enter the workforce with no student debt, but their degrees deliver an array of economic and social benefits both for themselves and their communities.

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Johnese Spisso has devoted her career to building world-class health care organizations. Now she brings her talent and abundant energy to help guide UCLA Health toward greater achievement.
UCLA |

UCLA Hospital System CEO on raising the bar

Q&A with Johnese Spisso.
A group of UC Davis students is breeding a “jalapeño popper,” a cross between a bell pepper and a jalapeño pepper. Two members of the team, Randi Jimenez and Wengyuan Xiao, examine their crop at the Student Farm.
UC Davis |

Students breeding a better organic popper pepper

UC Davis student-run project has become a model for other programs.
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UC Riverside |

The perfect car, according to science

A new study shows how the aesthetic design of U.S. auto models affects consumer preferences.
UC Riverside bacteria wild bees
UC Riverside |

Flowers critical link to bacteria transmission in wild bees

Research shows for the first time that multiple flower and wild bee species share several of the same types of bacteria.
Associate professor William Ristenpart talks with Sabrina Perell, community regional development major, and Kyle Phan, an undeclared major, about the taste of their brew during a UC Davis “Design of Coffee” class in 2015. UC Davis is now establishing a Co
UC Davis |

Peet's Coffee pledges $250,000 to advance coffee research

Gift will fund Peet's Coffee Pilot Roastery in first-of-its-kind Coffee Center at UC Davis.
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UCLA |

UCLA civil engineer to lead Italy earthquake research team

New group to investigate geological aspects of the devastating August tremblor sequence.
UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley |

White racism linked to fatal heart disease for blacks and whites

Living in unabashedly racist communities can shorten lives, new study finds.
UC Davis dogs cancer
UC Davis |

Cancer therapies for dogs may speed up treatments for humans

Man's best friend leads the way in fighting diseases we have in common.
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Sierra magazine names UC campuses among the nation’s greenest

All nine UC undergraduate campuses made the annual rankings, with Irvine and Davis in the top 10 in the country.
UC Santa Barbara professor David Cleveland in his home garden.
UC Santa Barbara |

How does your garden grow?

Professor, students model the effect of household gardens on greenhouse gas emissions.
Dr. Christopher Giza examines Kennedy Dierk, 14, at the UCLA Steve Tisch BrainSport Clinic. A new survey shows most parents rely on outdated advice when caring for kids with concussions.
UCLA |

Most parents likely to follow outdated concussion advice

UCLA survey shows majority of parents are apt to heed advice that could worsen symptoms for kids with concussions.
Former NFL defensive end Kalimba Edwards traded a mansion for a tent cabin on the UC Santa Cruz Farm where he is an apprentice in the ecologial horticulture program.
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Football, farming and food security

Former NFL player and current UC Santa Cruz farm apprentice tackles new cause: how to feed the world sustainably.