When Min Cho started researching protein translational mechanisms in blood cancers, it was just an abstract concept. His perspective changed when he was diagnosed with a rare blood disease.

Several dozen student fellows representing two of UC President Janet Napolitano’s initiatives — carbon neutrality and global food — will join together at a symposium July 20 in San Francisco.

Participants journey with the Olive Tree Initiative, a UC-based organization that promotes understanding through immersion in the history, culture and complexities of the conflict.

Eight UC undergraduate locations are top colleges in magazine's rankings.

Academy members will vote on geophysicist Marcia McNutt's candidacy in December.

It took a lot of spiders for Berkeley and UCSF alums to create a synthetic silk that's virtually identical to the real deal.

Online calculus courses are the first cross-campus courses that satisfy prerequisites at all nine UC undergraduate campuses.

California Higher Education Sustainability Conference Best Practice Awards recognize innovations made by campuses.

UC Santa Cruz anthropology student traces java's route from Central America to California for senior thesis.

Discovery is among a few little-seen firefly species found in Southern California.

Berkeley, Davis and Irvine dominate top five schools awarding doctoral degrees to Latino students.

As a kid growing up in Salinas, Calif., Rolando Perez displayed an unusual academic and technical aptitude, and once dreamed of becoming an astronaut. But by the time he was in his mid-20s, he found himself on a path that, he says, “was going to wind me up either in prison or dead.”

Drifting between jobs, with a rap sheet of minor offenses and a list of close friends lost to gang violence, Perez ultimately resolved to turn his life around.