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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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UCLA |

Great Recession pushes millions of adult children home

In California, older adults are paying a steep price for housing their boomerang kids.
UC Berkeley |

Atmospheric scientist leads U.S. team in joint report on climate change

Inez Fung is one of several esteemed co-authors of a landmark report that summarizes and highlights what is well understood in the field of climate study, and points to areas of uncertainty that require more research.
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UC Santa Cruz |

Film professor's video addresses LA public health crisis

Los Angeles transit passengers will learn of the dangers of 'Evil White Foods' from John Jota Leaños' film.
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UC San Diego |

Donated Dr. Seuss works may lead to new books

Trove of archived works, donated to the UC San Diego Library, may find their way into new books to delight Dr. Seuss' legion of fans.
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UCLA |

Google Glass app performs instant diagnostic tests

Users of the wearable computers can take pictures of medical samples, upload them immediately to a server and receive accurate analyses in as little as eight seconds.
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UC Newsroom |

About California's drought

UC researchers offer insights on coping with the state's extended dry spell.
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UC Irvine |

Can kava cure cancer?

Commonly brewed for tea, the plant compound is being studied for its effectiveness against bladder malignancies.
UCLA |

Experimental treatment eradicates acute leukemia in mice

Using an existing drug and a new drug developed at UCLA, the researchers wiped out cancer cells in mice with a deadly type of blood cancer, leaving healthy blood cells alone. The treatment might also have applications for other blood diseases.
UC Santa Cruz |

UCSC, UC Hastings offer accelerated law degree program

Students will receive BA and JD degrees in six years compared with the usual seven.
UC San Francisco |

UCSF, Walgreens open pharmacy

Joint endeavor on UCSF campus aims to improve medication safety and decrease health care costs.
UCLA Magazine |

Clayborne Carson: King's chronicler

The man who edits and publishes Martin Luther King’s papers isn't just a scholar of the civil rights movement. Historian, documentarian, playwright and scholar Clayborne Carson lived it.
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography |

Diminishing ice means a darker Arctic

Forty-five years after scientists hypothesized that global warming would make Arctic Ocean surfaces darker, Scripps team determines, through satellite data, how much the planet’s albedo has diminished.