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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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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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Sukkertoppen ice cap, Greenland
UC Irvine |

Greenland will add far more to sea rise than expected

UCI-NASA work reveals long, deep valleys connecting ice cap to the ocean.
UC Santa Cruz |

Wireless camera network offers new possibilities for security systems

Prototype solar-powered device has potential applications for security cameras and wildlife monitoring in remote areas.
UC Davis |

Drought's steep price for Central Valley agriculture

Industry may lose more than $1 billion; thousands of workers may lose their jobs.
Grateful Dead
UC Newsroom |

Legacies live on in special collections

Collection of iconic band's materials is one of many rich archives entrusted to UC.
UCLA |

Schools in U.S. growing more separate, still unequal

Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, schools nationwide are becoming more segregated for African Americans and Latinos.
U.S. Marine
UC San Diego |

War and Peace (of mind)

Meditation training may help reduce stress disorders among U.S. military personnel.
preschoolers napping
UC Berkeley |

Hazardous flame retardants found in preschools, child care

Hazardous chemicals — some banned in furnishings for years — are widespread in indoor environments.
UC Newsroom |

UC aims to better serve community college transfers

Proposals seek to simplify and strengthen the pathway through which one in three undergraduates get to UC.
kiss
UCLA |

Brain's response to sexual images linked to number of partners

Understanding the brain's reaction may help scientists create interventions to reduce sensitivity and, in turn, tendency toward risky sexual behavior.
girl at water pump
UC Newsroom |

UC inventions on display at Tech Commercialization Forum

Research discoveries make the leap to commercial products — and fuel the state's economy.
hillside
UC Newsroom |

A thirst for knowledge

Attacking the drought from all perspectives — that’s the power of public.
Fig. 1 — bike renegades
Fig. 1 by University of California |

Renegades of bike culture

Today’s hipsters and their fixies are not the first to embody the too-cool-for-school persona of the cyclist.