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‘Miracle’ medicine, based in federally funded science, arrived just in time to save his life

Millions of people are alive today because of leukemia therapies that arose from UC research, including retired Army Major Melvin Mann.

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7 world-changing UC innovations that emerged from federal research funding

From the internet to the ozone layer, AI to the human genome, UC scientists have turned federal research funding into history-making, economy-boosting solutions.

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A man behind the wheel of a car exhales a big puff of smoke
UCLA |

Driving high? Chemists make strides toward a marijuana breath analyzer

By oxidizing THC to create an electric current, a UCLA team’s fuel cell sensor can reveal the presence of the drug.
Defend DACA signs at a rally
UC Newsroom |

California’s public higher education leaders united in their support of DACA

In a joint statement, leaders urge DACA recipients to renew their status as a federal court reviews the program’s legal standing.
Black and white photo of Carolyn Bertozzi at a chalkboard
UC Berkeley |

Chemistry Nobelist Carolyn Bertozzi’s years at UC Berkeley

Bertozzi, who shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry, received her Ph.D. from Berkeley. She later became a professor in the College of Chemistry, where she conducting her seminal work.
Four young women walking around a neighborhood in Delano doing voter registration
UC Newsroom |

How UC students are unlocking the voting power of California youth

Inspired by the 1964 Freedom Summer Project to register Black voters in the South, UC Freedom Summer mobilizes young voters across California to unlock the voting power of their own communities.
Jessa Fate Bayudan, a UCLA student involved in Freedom Summer, knocks on doors to register voters in Delano
UC Newsroom |

Five minutes that could shape your future: Register now so you can vote in November.

Register online by Oct. 24 in California to take part in the upcoming 2022 election on Nov. 8.
Stuart Freedman in the early 1970s with the experimental apparatus he and John Clauser used to test “spooky action at a distance.”
UC Berkeley |

Physics Nobel recognizes UC Berkeley experiment on ‘spooky action at a distance’

John F. Clauser and the late Stuart Freedman carried out the first experiment to show the ‘weirdness’ of quantum physics.
The Dalai Lama
UC Merced |

‘Peace doesn't come from the sky’: Dalai Lama advocates for togetherness as he receives Spendlove Prize

A special recognition over a decade in the making was celebrated this month as His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama was awarded the Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance.
Two people speak to a small crowd of students in a garden
UC Santa Cruz |

Partnership across UC campuses will prepare the next generation of leaders in organic agriculture

A grant of more than $700,000 from the USDA will support a UC collaboration to improve and expand undergraduate education in organic agriculture, with an emphasis on supporting underrepresented students.
Blue plastic bag on gold background
UC Berkeley |

Could this new process finally turn polyethylene bags, plastics into something useful?

A promising new method for breaking down plastic would finally allow us to do something useful with hard-to-recycle waste.
Humpback whale feeding in Pacifica, California
UC Santa Barbara |

Setting up a ‘school zone’ for whales

Marine research and conservation institutions band together to expand whale-saving technology to the San Francisco Bay.
Pills tumbling from the air
UC San Diego |

Why are prescription drugs so expensive? It’s not necessarily high R&D, new study shows

Pharmaceutical companies claim they need to charge high drug prices to recover the costs of research and development, but researchers found no link between the two.
Downed powerlines off a flooded highway
Berkeley Lab via The Conversation |

Hurricane Ian: When the power grid goes out, could solar and batteries power your home?

A study of real-world disasters shows how home solar and storage could keep the lights on and the air conditioner running during many outages, if not all.