By making summer session more affordable, three UC campuses aim to help students take greater advantage of the academic off-season.
UC tests new ways of funding summer study
Celebrating World Toilet Day, reinventing sanitation
U.N. World Toilet Day, Nov. 19, highlights global sanitation shortfalls and their toll on human health and the environment.
Architectural students reinvent the community center
Imagine a community center that’s not your typical chunk of cinderblock — instead it’s an architecturally avant garde space where neighbors gather to grow, cook and eat food.
Students increasingly bringing “emotional support” animals to college
Nobody claims the dorms are evolving into petting zoos. But animals are gaining a toehold (clawhold?) in Cal residences.
UC Carbon Neutrality Student Fellows tackle big climate problems
The fellowships will fund projects, from the classroom to the operating room, that will steer the UC system toward its carbon neutrality goal.
Whiskers and locks: reading U.S. history through hair
From bearded lady acts to the Victorian practice of hair collecting, grad student Sarah Gold McBride is teasing out the meaning of hair in 19th-century America, and how it reveals evolving ideas about race and gender.
Statements from UC President Napolitano and Regents Chairman Lozano
Leadership comments on incident at UC Merced.
Big Ideas deadline approaches
Preproposals are due Nov. 12 for UC student innovation contest.
Touched by Shakespeare in solitary confinement
The classics carried one young man from incarceration to academia.
Banking on food
Free pantry staves off hunger among needy UC Irvine students.
Food for thought
UC Irvine provides a full menu of events, activities encouraging new approaches to sustainable nourishment.
Agreement with Bank of the West to benefit student programs
The agreement will help support programs like Bears for Financial Success and the UC Berkeley Food Pantry.