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The changing faces of California agriculture

Mark Bittman meets with UC Berkeley's Jennifer Sowerwine, who studies the cultural and ethnic dimensions of food security among Hmong farmers in the Central Valley. Together, they discuss the challenges facing these micro-farmers, and pick up produce at a Hmong stall at the Berkeley Farmers Market. 

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UC among best public, commuter colleges in new rankings

September 29, 2015

UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC San Diego rated highly by College Factual and Money magazine.

portobello mushrooms

Making batteries with portobello mushrooms

UC Riverside
September 29, 2015

Can mushrooms stop cell phone batteries from degrading over time? Engineering researchers at UC Riverside think so.

State Sen. Kevin de León

School of Public Policy will equip future leaders to solve 21st century challenges

UC Riverside
September 25, 2015

Senate president pro tem exhorts students to be creative and passionate in seeking solutions.

Peidong Yang, 2015 MacArthur Fellow

Chemist Peidong Yang receives MacArthur ‘genius award’

UC Berkeley
September 29, 2015

Synthetic leaf project aims to convert sunlight into transportation fuel through photosynthesis.

New nanomaterials take research to Mexico, possibly into space

UC Merced
September 28, 2015

Researchers will build working models with Mexican counterparts and seek to pair with NASA to create space-friendly methods of health treatment.

cigarette in ashtray

Investigating link between thirdhand smoke and cancer

Lawrence Berkeley Lab
September 28, 2015

Berkeley Lab gets $1.3M to study health impacts of the stubborn, noxious residue left behind from smoked tobacco.

Sorghum field

Sorghum is focus of $12.3M study of crop drought tolerance

UC Berkeley
September 28, 2015

Study will examine the role of epigenetics in allowing plants to survive in drought conditions.

treating an Ebola patient

Chip-based technology enables reliable direct detection of Ebola virus

UC Santa Cruz
September 25, 2015

System can be integrated into simple, portable instrument for use in field situations where rapid, accurate detection of the virus is needed to control outbreaks.

Pink waves shed light on beach contamination

Bacteria, chemicals and trash often end up on Southern California beaches after it rains. To understand how this and other contamination ends up in the water, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego is dying water pink. 

pink dye in ocean water
KPCC-FM
San Diego's water is getting turned pink to see how beaches get contaminated
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