Join student leaders on Monday, May 3, to learn how you can help their grassroots efforts to boost federal financial aid.
Organizing for the future of financial aid
The environmental justice league
UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative student fellow Neda Ibrahim establishes a campus collective focused on community-driven, equity-based climate solutions.
One astronaut’s amazing Earth Day — getting ready to pilot a flight to the International Space Station
Alumna Megan McArthur to return to space as pilot of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission, set to launch Friday, April 23.
Young UC scientists to learn from Nobel laureates
The University of California today (April 20) announced its second class of UC President’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellows, an extraordinary group of 30 young scientists selected from the 10 UC campuses and three national laboratories to attend invitation-only lectures and small seminars with some 40 Nobel laureates from around the world.
UC San Diego approves new undergraduate degree in Black Diaspora and African American Studies
The new degree will not only enhance academic offerings but will foster collaborative study regarding the current experiences and histories of people of African descent.
UC statement on the tragic killing of Daunte Wright
University of California President Michael V. Drake, M.D., issued the following statement today (April 13):
Sunday’s killing of Daunte Wright is yet another senseless tragedy that tears at our hearts and reopens deep wounds. Even as Americans follow the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, this latest horror vividly conjures the trauma and heartbreak of the killing of George Floyd just a few miles away. And so many, too many, others.
'Another glass ceiling shattered'
Student Gina Schneider becomes a part of history as one of the first women in the U.S. to achieve the rank of Eagle Scout.
Selina Brinkmann becomes UC Merced’s first Rhodes Scholar
Master’s student Selina Brinkmann has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for study at Oxford University — a first for the campus.
John Chaput can store the Declaration of Independence in a single molecule
By using a synthetic genetic polymer, the researcher overcomes prior limitations and lets you hold the world in the palm of your hand.
Mentoring by text message
More than 1,600 mentors stepped up in four months to help their fellow students feel connected.
COVID Stories: Fourth-year student grabs her surfboard, pursuing endless summer
Juggling chemistry with surfing, Katia Gibson says: “I’ve had an epiphany, and I want my life to be like this.”
UC students call on federal lawmakers to increase financial aid
UC students and leaders testified to the urgent need to reinvest in Pell Grant funding that helps those from low-income families pay for college.