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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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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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UCLA Guggenheim
UC Newsroom |

2016 Guggenheim fellowships awarded to 12 UC faculty

Prestigious midcareer awards granted to scholars and artists across seven campuses.
UCLA biochemistry
UCLA |

Major advance in biochemistry holds promise for biofuels

UCLA biochemists have devised a way to convert sugar into a variety of useful chemical compounds without using cells.
The UC Davis Olive Center’s Dan Flynn, second from right, stands alongside Juan Gómez, rector of the University of Jaén, during the award ceremony in Castillo de Canena, the castle after which the olive oil company is named. Also pictured are company owne
UC Davis |

UC Davis Olive Center shares expertise with Spain

Luis Vañó Prize goes to a research team at Spain’s University of Córdoba.
UC Davis reading study
UC Davis |

UC Davis scientists get a new look into how we read

Researchers discover a way to observe brain activity during natural reading, expanding our ability to understand language.
UC Newsroom |

Do your politics make you happy?

Does being conservative or liberal make you a happier person? And should that influence how you vote?
UC Grad Slam
UC Newsroom |

Grad students compete to make their research accessible

UC Grad Slam challenges students to sum up the subject of their dissertation, TED-style.
Unemployed smokers have a harder time finding a job
UC Newsroom |

Smokers struggle to find jobs, get paid less

A new study supported by UC has found that tobacco use while unemployed could make job prospects go up in smoke.
UC Riverside student volunteers, recruited by Global Food Intiative fellow Claudia Villegas, set up new garden beds at the Community Settlement Association.
UC ANR |

UC Cooperative Extension takes community gardening to new level in Riverside

UC Cooperative Extension in Riverside County is bringing together students, agencies, nutrition educators and gardening experts to work alongside families to grow produce in garden plots at a community facility.
UC San Diego arts engineer
UC San Diego |

Visual arts and engineering transforming education

Engineers and visual artists collaborate on final projects together in a new studio on the UC San Diego campus.
UCLA personalized medicine
UCLA |

UCLA study yields the key to effective personalized medicine

New platform optimizes drug doses to prevent organ rejection for transplant patients.
UC researchers found that half of WIC kids had eaten green vegetables the previous day, in contrast to only one in five non-WIC children.
UC ANR |

WIC food improves preschool children's diet quality, UC study finds

Federal assistance program serves roughly 4 million children.
UCSF doula training
UCSF Science of Caring |

Novel doula training for incarcerated women and those at risk grows

Successful UC San Francisco-supported vocational program provides empowerment and economic stability.