Professor and four students will work to engage the campus on climate change related issues in the coming year.
Riverside's climate heroes
Promoting team science
NSF grant puts UC Santa Barbara at the helm of interdisciplinary research effort to promote gender equity in the STEM workforce.
Bending the curve on climate change
Renowned atmospheric scientist V. Ramanathan of UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography explains how the state of California and the UC system together can lead the charge through the Carbon Neutrality Initiative and ‘bend the curve’ in global warming.
UC faculty win Packard Fellowships
The fellowships support early-career researchers in science and engineering.
Nine UC members elected to National Academy of Medicine
Members elected from three UC campuses: Davis, San Diego, San Francisco.
A pediatric cancer drug three decades in the making
Experimental immunotherapy treatment first successfully used in the 1990s is finally available for commercial use.
Berkeley names Faculty Climate Action Champion
Whendee Silver's work in soils and carbon earned her recognition as part of UC's Carbon Neutrality Initiative.
UC launches Cool Campus Challenge in a push toward carbon neutrality
'We’re on our way to becoming the very first university system to wipe out our carbon footprint for good.'
Juan Felipe Herrera is a voice for the people
U.S. poet laureate — a UCLA alumnus and UC Riverside professor emeritus — has been called an 'American original.'
Chemist Peidong Yang receives MacArthur ‘genius award’
Synthetic leaf project aims to convert sunlight into transportation fuel through photosynthesis.
A 'parking lot pitch' to the Pope
Last year, UC San Diego’s V. ‘Ram’ Ramanathan had an audience with Pope Francis in the parking lot of the Vatican. Ramanathan, who serves on the prestigious Pontifical Academy of Sciences panel, delivered what he calls a ‘parking lot pitch’ to the leader of the Catholic Church. Here, Ramanathan describes this moment and how it may have influenced the Pope’s subsequent position on the matter.
Building human breast tissue, cell by cell
Zev Gartner's innovative work in 3-D tissue generation has earned him a spot on Popular Science's 'Brilliant 10' list of 2015.