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Notable UC books of 2023

Looking to curl up with some winter reads? Whether your taste leans toward coming-of-age memoir or non-fiction, cooking or crime, we have something for you.
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12 ingenious discoveries from a year of UC research

In 2023, every campus, lab and medical center came through with findings that benefit our health, happiness and the very fate of our planet.
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UC researchers among the most influential in the world, according to Clarivate’s 2023 Highly Cited Researchers list

UC’s 317 faculty and scientists across all 10 campuses and the labs make the university the most highly cited institution in the world.
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Worldwide leaders convene to protect, advance global biodiversity

UC Santa Cruz hosted the APEC University Leaders' Forum with UC Davis and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities
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When humanists met technologists

UC Santa Cruz’s new Humanizing Technology Certificate Program is helping students confront the moral and social implications of technology, harnessing the power of the humanities to envision a more just and responsible future.
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Alumna Kathryn Sullivan enshrined in the National Aviation Hall of Fame

A trailblazer, barrier-breaker, scientist, and explorer, UC Santa Cruz alumna Kathryn Sullivan was the first American woman to walk in space, the first woman to reach the deepest point of the ocean floor, and the only person to ever do both.
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University of California earns top spots in 2023-24 U.S. News Best Colleges rankings

UC Berkeley and UCLA are the best public universities in the country, UC Merced takes a giant leap, and all nine undergrad campuses are among the top 40 public schools in the rankings’ 39th edition.
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Celebrating UC changemakers: Meet 10 Latino leaders creating a more equitable future for us all

Across disciplines as diverse as education, science, medicine, engineering, law, business and politics, Latino leaders from the University of California are helping to create a more equitable future for all.
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Seismologists use deep learning to forecast earthquakes

Existing models of earthquake aftershocks struggle with the volume of contemporary data, but a new team uses deep learning to improve forecasting.
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Scientists release the first complete sequence of a human Y chromosome

Until now, it had been notoriously challenging for the genomics community to sequence due to the complexity of its structure.
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University of California campuses are among the nation’s best, according to student surveys

All nine UC undergraduate campuses were named top academic institutions by the Princeton Review in its Best Colleges for 2024 list and its related guidebook.
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A 15-year-old childhood cancer survivor becomes a cancer researcher

This summer, young Robert McCabe helped to sequence and analyze a tumor sample in the lab of the UC Santa Cruz Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative.