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UC Newsroom |

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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UC Newsroom |

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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UC Berkeley |

Student team aims for app to help diabetes patients dining out

UC Berkeley team heading to round 2 of the Diabetes Design Challenge.
The UC Berkeley Food Pantry will benefit from the campus’s new relationship with Bank of the West.
UC Berkeley |

Agreement with Bank of the West to benefit student programs

The agreement will help support programs like Bears for Financial Success and the UC Berkeley Food Pantry.
UC Riverside |

Riverside's climate heroes

Professor and four students will work to engage the campus on climate change related issues in the coming year.
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UC Newsroom |

Making a splash: first look at concussions in water polo

UC Irvine physiologist James Hicks, whose three sons played water polo, is leading the first probe of concussions in water polo.
Agriculture, including vegetables, grain and fruit crops, is the largest sector of Pakistan's economy.
UC Davis |

UC Davis and Pakistan launch $17M food and agricultural partnership

Project will build on UC Davis' efforts in Pakistan agriculture, with a renewed emphasis on an exchange of faculty and graduate students.
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UC Santa Barbara |

The coldest summer

A team of researchers in Antarctica is studying an ancient subduction zone to better understand the continent’s geologic evolution.
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UCLA |

The Grand Challenge of combating depression

Genetic study of 100,000 people will be the largest ever on a single disorder.
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California Magazine |

So long, passwords: What will it take for us to trust biometrics?

Fingerprints, voice and facial recognition aren't foolproof. For biometrics to truly dislodge passwords, a different approach is necessary to make them more secure.
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UCLA Blueprint |

Unequal schools: the perpetuation of poverty

A researcher's own experience with learning disabilities led to devoting his research and writing to identifying inequalities in education and community-organizing for school reform.
Irish President Michael Higgins meets Berkeley students and announces seed funding for an Irish studies program.
UC Berkeley |

Irish president presses his case for ending world hunger

Helps launch Irish studies program at UC Berkeley.
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UC San Francisco |

Cutting sugar from kids' diets improves health in just days

Reducing consumption of added sugar has the power to reverse a cluster of chronic metabolic diseases, such as high cholesterol and blood pressure, in children in as little as 10 days.
UC Newsroom |

The 10 scalable solutions

More details on each of these solutions can be found in the executive summary of "Bending the Curve." A full report will be published in spring 2016.