UC Berkeley |

Game of Thrones, a class unto itself

UC Berkeley summer session course explores what show may be saying about democracy, climate change and corruption of the American Dream.

UC Newsroom |

University of California campuses dominate global rankings

All 10 campuses on a list of the 1,000 best universities compiled by the Center for World University Rankings.

UCLA |

THOR kicks to the top of robot soccer

UCLA/Penn team won first place at RoboCup, a global robot soccer tournament held in China.
UC Berkeley |

Ultra-low-cost solution to a big water problem

Blum Center contest winner aims to remove excess fluoride from drinking water.
UC Newsroom |

From classrooms to fields, students dig into food fellowships

Global Food Initiative fellows represent a broad cross-section of students.
UC San Francisco |

Blood cell research turns personal

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.
UC Newsroom |

Student fellows to unite at symposium

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.
UCLA |

Students head for frontlines of Palestinian-Israeli conflict

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.
UC Newsroom |

Money ranks 8 UC campuses as best college values

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

UC San Diego |

Scripps alumna nominated to lead National Academy of Sciences

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

Spinning silk sans spiders

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

Santa Cruz develops online courses available to all UC students

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