UC Santa Cruz |

When humanists met technologists

UC Santa Cruz’s new Humanizing Technology Certificate Program is helping students confront the moral and social implications of technology, harnessing the power of the humanities to envision a more just and responsible future.
UC San Diego |

Psychedelic revolution

After decades on the fringe, UC San Diego psychedelic research goes mainstream — and tackles chronic pain.
UC Irvine |

Giving voice to veterans

A UC Irvine certificate program comprises three courses exploring experiences of service members.
UC Berkeley |

Why we're so obsessed with cults

"In this crisis moment, we have a return to desire for overarching meaning, radical acceptance, transformative experience, transcendence," says the UC Berkeley professor of English and co-director of the Program in Critical Theory.
UC Riverside |

Speaking in color: Plants transformed into detectors of dangerous chemicals

Scientists have engineered a way for a plant to show the presence of a banned pesticide in water without affecting its other functions.
California Magazine |

From Kumbaya to Lord of the Flies

Chancellor Christ on how the Pac-12 fell apart and Cal’s future in the ACC.
UC Newsroom |

UC claims 4 spots on TIME’s “Best Inventions of 2023” list

The magazine recognizes four inventions developed or advanced in UC laboratories among 200 products that TIME’s editors describe as “changing how we live, work, play, and think about what’s possible.”
UC Berkeley |

Rescuing dissent: Inside the year-long mission to bring prominent Putin critics to UC Berkeley

Russian social science professors Ilya Matveev and Ilya Budraitskis, renowned for their expertise on authoritarianism, fled their country after Russia invaded Ukraine. A faculty and staff coalition helped give them a safe harbor at UC Berkeley.
UCLA |

Romance or nomance? Adolescents prefer to see less sex, more friendships, platonic relationships on screen

Teens and young adults think romance is overused in the media they consume.
UC San Francisco |

Two daughters, a rare blood disorder and a fairytale cure

UCSF Benioff Oakland helps 90% of kids with beta thalassemia end transfusions.
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.