A $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education will fund support services for second-year students with undeclared majors from low-income families, who are most at risk of dropping out.

UC Davis Chancellor Katehi: "Each of us must do more to create a campus culture where violence of any type is never tolerated and perpetrators are dealt with in an appropriate and decisive manner."

Recipients were selected for their Oakland-centric community service work, which amounted to  hundreds of hours of volunteer efforts.

UC Berkeley leads nine UC campuses in the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities.

UCLA, UC Davis and UC Irvine join four other universities in the University Learning Store project, offering a shorter, more affordable learning platform than the traditional degree.

In our fourth year of drought, the UC Davis Department of Viticulture and Enology shows off its latest attempts to make sure student-produced wine remains both delicious and water conscious.

As universities nationally struggle to recruit more diverse students to their graduate programs, one innovative UC effort is having noteworthy results.

UC "dominates" rankings with five campuses among magazine's top 20 "Cool Schools" list of sustainable universities.

UC San Diego's Gradvantage seeks to prepare scholars for a range of jobs in a changing economy.

Commonwealth Club event Aug. 19 features Napolitano in conversation with Dr. Charlotte Jacobs, author of "Jonas Salk: A Life."

If approved, it would be first stand-alone music school in the UC system.

Jagdeep Singh Bachher says such investing made investment sense and was necessary for the earth's sustainability.