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Artificial biosensor can better measure the body’s main stress hormone

Research from UC Santa Cruz paves the way for point-of-care cortisol testing and diagnoses.
UC Office of the President |

UC admission of first-year California students tops 100,000, a new record

The University of California announced today (July 28) that it admitted 100,947 California first-year students, its largest class to date.
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Here’s how we help an iconic California fish survive the gauntlet of today’s highly modified waterways

New ‘facilitated migration’ framework gives water managers a playbook for getting more juvenile Chinook salmon from the Central Valley to the sea.
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What will that UC degree get you? 25 years of data show UC alums in high-growth careers across industry sectors

UC’s new Alumni Career Pathways dashboard shows where UC alums are working and how they’re helping fuel innovation and economic growth in California and nationwide.
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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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The University of California is the country’s best value in education, new rankings show

Princeton Review and Money agree: UC campuses offer a stellar mix of academics, affordability and student outcomes, according to their newly issued annual lists.
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Twenty-five years after the human genome project, a new era is dawning

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote.
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A fresh look at TikTok: Short food videos encourage long-term healthy eating habits in teens

Research from UC Santa Cruz human-computer interactions scholars is revealing how online habits translate into offline actions.
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UC Santa Cruz |

Revolutionary Rubin Observatory debuts with first images taken by world’s largest camera

UC researchers have made key contributions to the 20-year collaboration.
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UC leads American public research universities in global impact, new rankings show

All 10 UC campuses are among the best universities in the world in research impact, with eight among the top 25 public universities in the United States, according to the 2025-26 Best Global Universities ranking from U.S. News & World Report.
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UC Santa Cruz |

Acclaimed author William Finnegan on his long journey to The New Yorker

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Humanities Undergraduate Alumni Award from UC Santa Cruz.
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Next up for UC’s Class of 2025? Building California’s brilliant future

From jobs to graduate school to giving back to the communities they came from, UC’s latest crop of graduates has big plans to make a difference.
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