University of California officials today (Nov. 29) announced tentative agreements with the United Auto Workers (UAW) on new five-year contracts for UC Postdoctoral Scholars and Academic Researchers. Once ratified by union members, the new contracts will be effective through September 30, 2027.

The new contracts address key issues including fair compensation, job security and paid family leave.

1999 graduate Martha Gonzalez reflects on her journey from Boyle Heights to MacArthur fellow.

Including UC Davis Chancellor May’s ‘Uncle Ike,’ a Tuskegee Airman.

Nearly 200 countries will participate in the United Nations’ climate change conference, known as COP27 (short for the 27th Conference of the Parties) from Nov. 6-18.

Here’s how to quickly get up to speed about what’s at stake in the upcoming election.

A Santa Barbara Foundation grant underscores the community need for racially-informed therapy services.

Fellows are selected for their exceptional talent and creativity — and the promise of even greater things to come.

Depressive realism has held sway in science and popular culture for decades, but a rosier outlook may be overdue.

This year, the winners in physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry all share one important distinction: important foundational time spent at UC, a cradle of inventiveness, experimentation and learning.

Bertozzi, who shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry, received her Ph.D. from Berkeley. She later became a professor in the College of Chemistry, where she conducting her seminal work.

Inspired by the 1964 Freedom Summer Project to register Black voters in the South, UC Freedom Summer mobilizes young voters across California to unlock the voting power of their own communities.