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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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UC Newsroom |

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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chest X-ray
UC Davis |

Potential lung cancer vaccine shows renewed promise

In mouse studies, an investigational cancer vaccine boosted immune response and reduced the number of tumors.
UC Irvine's Mamadou Ndiaye and Obama cutout
UC Irvine |

President Obama to speak at UC Irvine commencement celebration

Months of petitioning paid off: President Obama will speak at UC Irvine's commencement this spring.
real and faked pain
UC San Diego |

Faking pain? Can't fool a computer

Humans may think that grimace is genuine, but a computer-vision system can detect clues that give away the ploy.
Neil Garg and students
UCLA Magazine |

Mix chemistry, YouTube and a special teacher for a magical reaction

An award-winning teacher, professor Neil Garg has found new ways to reach the next generation of scientists taking his non-nonsense organic chemistry class.
students Aaron Minoofar and Guy Dotan
UCLA |

A winning strategy: Students invent board games that tap into Inca culture, history

Students in an archaeology class on the Inca Empire devised board games based on the history and culture of what was the largest civilization in pre-Columbian America.
UC Berkeley |

Berkeley-borne technology spreading faster than ever

Since Cal's tech-transfer office opened, more than 800 companies have sponsored research projects, investing important resources in many areas and resulting in significant patent and licensing fees.
golf club
UC Irvine |

Titanium clubs can cause golf course fires

Sparks fly when head hits rocks in the rough, potentially igniting brush
girl with fingers crossed behind her back
UC San Diego |

Lied-to children more likely to cheat and lie

When adults are dishonest with their offspring, the children mirror that behavior.
coronal mass ejection
UC Berkeley |

Fierce solar magnetic storm barely missed Earth in 2012

A rapid succession of coronal mass ejections – the most intense eruptions on the sun – sent a pulse of magnetized plasma barreling into space and through Earth’s orbit. Had it hit, it could have disrupted our increasingly electronic lives.
Jim Velzy and Ingrid Parker
UC Santa Cruz |

Bringing plant back from the brink of extinction

Experimental reintroductions are helping to establish new populations of a critically endangered wetland plant.
Greenland river
UCLA |

Geographers create 'easy button' to calculate river flows from space

The frustrated attempts of a graduate student to quantify the amount of water draining from Greenland's melting ice sheet led him to devise a new way to measure river flows using satellite images.
UC Riverside |

Ancestry.com, UC Riverside partner to digitize historical newspapers

Historians, genealogists, rejoice: Partnership will bring millions of pages of historical California papers online.