Survey finds strong career satisfaction and high employment rates among UC Ph.D. earners
Survey looked at employment outcomes, alumni perceptions about the value of graduate education, and student loan debt, among other things.
Food guru Michael Pollan not on hand to preach
UC Berkeley's Michael Pollan came to San Diego to receive Scripps’ 2014 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest.
U-T San Diego
NIH awards $32 million to tackle Big Data in medicine
UC San Diego, UC Irvine and UCLA are among recipients who seek ways to handle data in search of medical discoveries.
Chronicle of Higher Education
New wave of brain research aims at understanding every function
UC scientists were big winners in latest round of funding, with money going to projects at UCSF, UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Davis, UCLA, UC Irvine and UC San Diego.
San Francisco Chronicle
UC incubators eager to scout startups, co-investors for UC Ventures
Fledgling companies are well-placed to benefit from the new $250 million venture fund the university system plans to set up next year.
Xconomy
Want to address world hunger and win $10,000? UC contest rewards big student ideas
Inspired by the University of California Global Food Initiative, the Big Ideas @ Berkeley student innovation contest has launched a new category: Food System Innovations.
Diversity leads to success in higher education
Linda P.B. Katehi, UC Davis chancellor, on the campus' quest to become a Hispanic Serving Institution, and why diversity matters.
Huffington Post
Napolitano will examine enrollment levels of non-California students
UC president says she wants to tackle the controversial issue of whether some undergraduate campuses enroll too many students from other states and countries.
Los Angeles Times
Why it’s so hard to lose an accent
Accents are extremely difficult to lose because our infant brains codify a lifetime's worth of sounds before we've spoken our first word.
Wired
UC, CSU to start loan program for students who entered the country illegally
California public university students who can't take out federal loans because of their immigration status soon will be able to borrow from their colleges instead.
Bay Area News Group