UC Merced |
Student’s lengthy academic journey concludes at commencement
After a few life detours, Merced's oldest undergrad earns her degree.
UC Davis |
Law students seek to right historic wrong with posthumous California Bar admission of Chinese lawyer
Law students seek posthumous California Bar admission of Chinese lawyer who was denied license in 1890.
UC Newsroom |
Freshman thrives in research program
Public health program aimed at young women opened the door to undergraduate research and potential medical career.
UC Santa Cruz |
Alumna Kathryn Sullivan on Time's '100 Most Influential People' list
Former astronaut Kathryn Sullivan '73 now leads NOAA as under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere.
UC Newsroom |
Grad student's tool averts invasive species
UC grad student’s tool maps where non-native species are likely to take hold.
UCLA |
UCLA alumnus Meb Keflezighi wins Boston Marathon
A year after the bombings, UCLA's most accomplished distance runner, Meb Kefleghizi, wins the 118th race in 2:08:37.
Forbes |
David Miller's SlugBooks out to disrupt college textbook market
UC Santa Cruz alum is behind a site that fuels comparison shopping for pricey college textbooks.
UC Irvine |
Roy Fielding stands on protocol
Alumnus Roy Fielding helped develop the now-familiar HTTP that guides the flow of Internet information.
UC Berkeley |
Grad student, prof and alum join forces to save diabetics from blindness in post-conflict Libya
A graduate student in optometry, one of her professors and an alumnus have joined forces to build a long-distance diagnostic project that has the potential to save sight for many.
California Magazine |
Cal engineering team designs canoe of concrete
Cal engineering team designs, builds — and races — a canoe of concrete.
UCLA |
Students use alternative spring break to grow
There are plenty of UCLA students who are spending the week of spring break enhancing their suntans and frolicking at traditional meccas of fun to decompress. But spring break also represents another kind of opportunity for students who have opted to travel to other destinations. Think Detroit.
At the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, 10 graduate students have chosen to spend the week in the downtrodden Motor City to learn firsthand from city officials and leaders about the pain of insolvency and collapse of urban infrastructure.
UC Irvine |
President Obama to speak at UC Irvine commencement celebration
Months of petitioning paid off: President Obama will speak at UC Irvine's commencement this spring.