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Prepare to be amazed! UC graduate students wow with 3-minute talks at Grad Slam
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UC graduate programs and schools lead the nation in the 2025-26 U.S. News Best Graduate Schools rankings
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UC’s green investments pay off
The University of California is saving $32 million a year on energy and remains the leader in higher education for adopting green building standards.Those achievements and others are outlined in the 2011 UC Annual Report on Sustainable Practices at the Board…
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UC president addresses Roosevelt High students
University of California President Mark G. Yudof brought a message of access and aspiration to more than 1,000 students in a rally at Theodore Roosevelt High School in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles.
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Education Abroad photo contest winners named
The University of California Education Abroad Program (UCEAP) recently announced the winners of the 2011 Study Abroad Photo Contest.
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Seeding innovation
Long before UC Berkeley author Michael Pollan told us omnivores had a dilemma in books that questioned the industrial food complex, college students were at the forefront of a movement to rethink what we eat.
Back in the 1960s and 1970s, when organic was a…
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As HIV population grows older, diseases of aging a new dilemma
The longer life expectancy of those infected with HIV presents a new challenge for patients and health care providers.
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UC cuts administrative costs, seeks new revenue
The University of California Board of Regents met Wednesday and Thursday (Jan. 18-19) at UC Riverside to discuss savings from cost-cutting and development of new revenue to fill a looming budget gap.But discussion of private contributions as a way to bolster…
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Air pollution results from sugarcane ethanol production
MERCED — The burning of sugarcane fields prior to harvest for ethanol production can create air pollution that detracts from the biofuel's overall sustainability, according to research published recently by a team of researchers led by scientists at…
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For the birds, location matters when foraging
Location matters for birds on the hunt for caterpillars, according to researchers at UC Irvine and Wesleyan University.
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Assess stranger's trustworthiness in 20 seconds
BERKELEY — There’s definitely something to be said for first impressions. New research from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests it can take just 20 seconds to detect whether a stranger is genetically inclined to being trustworthy,…
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CERN group traps antihydrogen atoms for 16 minutes
Trapping antihydrogen atoms at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has become so routine that physicists are confident that they can soon begin experiments on this rare antimatter equivalent of the hydrogen atom, according to researchers at…
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UCSF ALS Center’s founding director dies of the disease he studied
Richard K. Olney, MD, founding director of the ALS Treatment and Research Center at UCSF and a pioneer in clinical research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), has died at age 64, following his own eight-year battle with the disease.
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UC explores restorative justice in improving campus climate
The two-day training session at the UC Office of the President offers participants guidance in facilitating and implementing restorative justice in a campus community.