Paleoecology professor Sora Kim
UC Merced |

New project focuses on women of color in the geosciences throughout UC

A three-year grant will launch a network to provide community, belonging, access, advocacy and resources to overcome barriers to success.
Shelley Taylor, white woman with blonde hair cut in a bob, wearing a pink sweater, smiles at the camera sitting at her desk, with a monitor and a potted planted in the background.
UC Newsroom |

Three extraordinary UC faculty awarded National Medals at White House ceremony

They received the nation’s highest honor for their scientific and technological achievements.
UC Office of the President |

UC convenes historic forum on nearly $100 million in California climate action projects

The University of California is hosting a showcase of projects and research aimed at helping the state in its critical fight against climate change today (Oct. 25) and tomorrow (Oct. 26) in Sacramento.

Four firefighters stand against a backdrop of flames. The scene is dark, and 2 young male firefighters hold a device with a long antenna
UC Newsroom |

New UC-backed research is helping California communities respond to the climate crisis

Artist rendering of an office campus with the bay in the background
UC Berkeley |

Berkeley Space Center at NASA Ames to become innovation hub for new aviation, space technology

UC Berkeley will develop a 36-acre site to house companies, labs and students in heart of Silicon Valley.
Two men in snorkels and wet suits extend a net in a creek
UC Davis / California Department of Fish and Wildlife |

UC Davis to safeguard spring-run Chinook salmon broodstock

UC Davis joins state and federal fisheries agencies to conserve threatened spring-run Chinook salmon, housing captive broodstock.
A man in a straw hat uses a wooden stick to start a fire in a brush pile while 6 people watch.
UC Santa Barbara |

A Chumash cultural burn reignites ancient practice for wildland conservation

“We're active in cultural revitalization, language revitalization, and doing this burn is one of those missing puzzle pieces,” said Robyne Redwater, whose family hails from villages in Santa Barbara and the Channel Islands.
A woman with a long ponytail holds a baby and looks out the window with a trouble expression on her face
UC San Francisco |

Will a pill help new moms bounce back from postpartum depression?

Margo Pumar, medical director of perinatal psychiatry at UCSF, on what families need to know about a new drug called zuranolone.
Realistic illustration of a comet with a colorful tail streaking through space, tailed by 2 smaller asteroids
UC Santa Barbara |

A prehistoric cosmic airburst preceded the advent of agriculture in the Levant

The transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in the ancient Middle East began with a bang, according to new research from UC Santa Barbara.
A photo collage with blue, red and yellow overlays showing lab work, a car, a phone and a satellite image of California.
UC Berkeley |

A history of innovation: UC Berkeley entrepreneurs, companies that changed the way we live

You may not know these names, but you definitely know the results of their work.
A graphic of the path of an upcoming solar eclipse passing over the United States
UC Irvine |

UC Irvine astronomers offer tips for safe observation of upcoming partial solar eclipse

The Oct. 14 mid-morning event will be viewable in Southern California
E. Tendayi Achiume, African American woman, poses outside, arms crossed, next to a redwood
UC Newsroom |

One in four MacArthur ‘geniuses’ this year has UC bona fides

UC-affiliated experts are a perennial presence on the esteemed annual list of MacArthur Fellows.
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