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UC Newsroom |

UC alumni launch more companies than graduates from anywhere else in the world

Six University of California campuses are among the top 100 universities for entrepreneurship globally, with UC Berkeley claiming the No. 1 spot for the third year in a row.
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UC Newsroom |

Thrilling progress in brain-computer interfaces from UC labs

UC researchers and the patients they work with are showing the world what's possible when the human mind and advanced computers meet.
Then-Berkeley Lab Director Edwin McMillan, left, and Bevatron Group Leader Ed Lofgren, stand atop the 7-feet-thick concrete shielding at the remodeled Bevatron in this 1963 photo.
UC Newsroom |

How the US became a science superpower

America's leadership "isn't some fixed, unchanging feature of the scientific landscape," says one UC historian.
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University of California Presents Last, Best and Final Offer to UPTE

In an effort to reach a resolution after 15 months of negotiations, the University of California (UC) today presented its Last, Best and Final Offer (LBFO) to the University Professional and Technical Employees (UPTE) union. 

The offer reflects movement by UC toward addressing UPTE’s priorities, including an additional wage increase and measures to help offset rising health care costs for more than 19,000 UPTE-represented employees across the system. It comes amidst significant financial uncertainty faced by the UC system due to federal and state activities. 

Students walk in front of a large building with two towers, Royce Hall, on the UC campus as evening begins to fall
UC Newsroom |

University of California is the best public university in the country, Forbes finds

The 2026 America’s Top Colleges list features an all-UC top 3 and eight campuses in the top 30 for producing successful, low-debt graduates.
Five students wearing UC Merced Bobcat t-shirts smile for the camera in a downpour
UC Merced |

Open arms, open skies: Students welcomed at spirited, soggy Scholars Bridge crossing

A summer storm made Tuesday morning’s Scholars Bridge Crossing, UC Merced’s traditional greeting to new students, a welcome unlike any before.
A conceptual illustration of the inside of a computer, with vector-like glowing lines running up the inside of a dark box, merging in a single glowing point in the upper left of the image
UC Riverside |

How to build larger, more reliable quantum computers

UC Riverside scientists link multiple quantum chips to grow quantum systems.
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UC San Diego |

Tracking the UV? Ditching the SPF? Here’s what a dermatologist says

While online conversations about sun exposure are trending, the risks of UV radiation are real and cumulative, says UC San Diego dermatologist Y. Linda Liou, DO.
A student focuses intently as he operates one arm of a many-armed robot, while a teacher watches
UC San Francisco |

The future is robotic surgery. These students get a front-row seat

UCSF is the first university to certify medical students as bedside assistants for robotic surgeries, giving the next generation of surgeons a head start in a burgeoning field.
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UC Davis |

Wheat that makes its own fertilizer

A bacterial work-around developed by UC Davis plant scientists aims to reduce pollution and lower costs for farmers.
A grad student focuses intently as he slides a three-foot-long steel bar into a large apparatus made of tubes and wires, in a lab full of similar such apparatuses.
UC Newsroom |

Critical research hangs in the balance as UC faces unprecedented federal threats

Explore some of the research happening at UC that’s poised to deliver transformative benefits to the American people.
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UC Newsroom |

12 foods you couldn’t live without — brought to you by the University of California

Across university farms and labs, and in partnership with growers and ranchers around the state, research from the University of California is at the root of the nation’s abundance.
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