UC's president recently returned from a two-day trip to Mexico, where she met with government officials and academics to discuss efforts to bolster cross-border academic and cultural ties.
UC Irvine neuroscientist Larry Cahill used to share his field's assumption that males and females were fundamentally the same. But he's changed his outlook 180 degrees.
In the 1980s, states contributed most of the funds that public universities needed for higher education. But it's dropped by an average of 26 percent from 1990 to 2009.
A UC San Diego-developed citizen sensor project uses a tricorder device that researchers hope will revolutionize global health and environmental monitoring – especially in remote and undeveloped areas of the world.