Philanthropist Chuck Feeney's gift — which makes him the UC system's single largest donor — will support new Mission Bay hospitals, scholarships, faculty and research programs.

UC has taken a series of steps to combat global climate change by investing in sustainability, including becoming the first university in the world to sign the Montreal Carbon Pledge.

President Napolitano writes to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan about the draft framework for the new college ratings system.

Per-student expenditures were $5,500 lower in 2012-13 than in 1990-91.

Universities across the country have developed entre­pre­neur­ship programs aimed at encouraging students and faculty to turn ideas into actual companies. Now, an increasing number of them also are giving money to help those businesses get started.

Anonymous $500,000 donation, matched by UC president’s new fund, will establish $1 million endowment to provide leadership and vision for UC Merced research.

Funds will go toward general expenses, augmenting the $1.5 million the UC Office of the President provides annually for operation.

UC President Napolitano spoke Monday at the U.S. Department of Energy's ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit to highlight the university’s investments in sustainability and its groundbreaking research enterprise.

With venture capital for clean energy investments drying up, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is nurturing entrepreneurs.

Janet Napolitano and Mark Yudof discuss the challenges facing America’s higher education system and, in particular, the University of California.

Grants will go to a diverse array of projects, from developing an implantable device that could correct memory impairment to an effort to help California better manage its water resources.

Incoming students will be screened for TB and vaccinated for measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, meningococcus, tetanus and whooping cough, under a plan set to take effect in 2017.