UC Newsroom |
Millions of California women are exposed to cancer-causing chemicals at work. UC-funded research pinpoints risks and solutions.
The California Breast Cancer Research Program recently hosted a virtual symposium exploring critical findings on women's occupational exposures to chemicals linked with the disease.
UC Santa Barbara |
Democracy is more fragile than you think
The rise in authoritarian attitudes is coming from the right and the left.
UC Irvine |
‘You Are What You Eat’: How a nutritional study made it to the Netflix screen
Researcher and dietitian Dr. Matt Landry served as first author on a study that made its way to a new documentary.
UC San Diego |
UC San Diego composer Anthony Davis inducted into the Opera Hall of Fame
A Pulitzer prize-winning musician who has written eight operas thus far, Davis is unafraid to spotlight some of society’s most pervasive problems in the form.
UC Newsroom |
How three UC campuses are phasing out fossil fuels
This year every UC campus will publish a plan for eliminating carbon emissions and transitioning to renewable energy by 2045, and three campuses — Berkeley, Davis and Santa Cruz — are on track to decarbonize ahead of schedule.
UC Office of the President |
UC President Michael V. Drake, M.D. Remarks at January 25 Regents Meeting
The University of California Board of Regents today voted to suspend implementation of Regents Policy 4407 for one year. As the item has now been suspended, no further regental action will occur without a full vote of the Board of Regents.
UC President Michael V. Drake, M.D., made the following remarks:
UCLA Magazine |
The time traveler: Eddie Cole on affirmative action and this moment in history
With affirmative action under attack, historian Eddie Cole ponders the past — his own, and the country’s — as American higher education barrels toward an uncertain future.
UC Riverside |
Keys to aging hidden in the leaves
Researchers at UC Riverside have pinpointed the part of a plant's cell that governs the speed of aging. By tinkering with these organelle, they've been able to bring nearly-dead plants back to vigorous health.
UC Berkeley |
Small solar sails could be the next ‘giant leap’ for interplanetary space exploration
Researcher from UC Berkeley aims to create a fleet of low-cost, autonomous spacecraft propelled by light particles.
UC San Diego |
We need a staph vaccine: here’s why we don’t have one
Research from UC San Diego explains the clinical failure of dozens of candidate vaccines for one of the most common human infections; it also suggests a way to fix the problem.
UCLA |
UCLA creates first disability studies major at a California public university
New program launched thanks in part to overwhelming popularity of the campus’s existing minor.
UC Riverside |
New reasons eating less fat should be one of your resolutions
High-fat diets affect genes linked not only to obesity, colon cancer and irritable bowels, but also to the immune system, brain function, and potentially COVID-19 risk, according to a new study from researchers at UC Riverside.