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UC Santa Barbara |

The write stuff

A writing workshop for student veterans offers an opportunity to tell their stories and connect with peers.

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UC Berkeley School of Public Health |

Harnessing real-world data to bring life-saving drugs to the public sooner

UC Berkeley School of Public Health researchers are collaborating with the FDA and industry to make drug clinical trials faster and better.
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UC Newsroom |

What ‘Open Inquiry: UC Arts’ reveals about the future of arts education

A new exhibition of work by recent University of California alumni highlights UC's artistic legacy and shows California’s world-class public university is ready to step in as art schools across the country disappear.
A visualization of two thin blue dashes, the satellites, behind what looks like a fireball in the sky, but is actually a magnetic field
UC Berkeley |

UC Berkeley’s Blue and Gold satellites are now flying through Earth’s magnetotail — a first

Launched to Mars in November, NASA’s ESCAPADE probes — operated by UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Lab — are now testing their instruments in a never-before-visited region of Earth's magnetic field.
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UC Berkeley Haas |

AI promised to free up workers’ time. UC Berkeley Haas researchers found the opposite.

While conducting research on how AI was changing daily work at a U.S. technology company, a UC Berkeley Haas doctoral student noticed a pattern that raised a provocative question: What if AI is intensifying work rather than reducing it?
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UC Newsroom |

New report: Sustainability is driving major cost savings across UC

UC has saved hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years by investing in energy efficiency, reuse and resilient infrastructure.
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UC Newsroom |

18 UC faculty named 2026 Sloan Research fellows

More Sloan fellows are affiliated with UC than with any other institution granted the awards this year, and UC leads all institutions in Sloan fellows across the program’s 61-year history.
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UC Newsroom |

3 ways UC science is healing broken hearts

UC labs are developing new treatments that don’t just prevent damage from getting worse, but — for the first time in medical history — actually help the heart heal.
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UC Berkeley |

UC Berkeley’s mass timber research is impacting the decarbonization of California’s construction industry

The first vertically integrated producer of mass timber in California transforms waste wood from our forests into construction-ready building panels.
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UC Newsroom |

Nearly 60 of UC’s youngest innovators featured on the 2026 Forbes “30 Under 30” list

UC alumni and faculty from seven campuses are leading the way for the next generation across AI, entrepreneurship, health care, social impact and more.
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UC Newsroom |

Deep in the Dolomites, a UC Berkeley professor and his service dog carry the Olympic flame

Matteo M. Garbelotto-Benzon and his service dog, S’Abba, are poised to show the life-altering abilities of assistance dogs as they prepare to carry the Olympic torch on its journey to Milan to open the 2026 Winter Games.
A photo illustration showing an eye in clouds, overlayed with numbers from computer code. The image symbolizes the increasing human-like power of AI systems and their effect on society.
UC Berkeley |

11 things AI experts are watching for in 2026

How will AI disrupt the labor market? What will deepfake videos mean for our understanding of truth? Are we in a bubble, and if so, will the bubble burst?
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