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UC Newsroom |

Next up for UC’s Class of 2025? Building California’s brilliant future

From jobs to graduate school to giving back to the communities they came from, UC’s latest crop of graduates has big plans to make a difference.

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UC Newsroom |

Is college worth it? For University of California grads, the data offers an undeniable ‘Yes!’

Not only do large percentages of UC alums enter the workforce with no student debt, but their degrees deliver an array of economic and social benefits both for themselves and their communities.

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Zona Roberts
California Magazine |

Meet Zona Roberts: The grandmother of the disability movement turns 103

How Ed Roberts and his mother Zona changed the world.
Portraits of Héctor Tobar (left) and Roland Betancourt
UC Newsroom |

16 UC faculty awarded prestigious 2023 Guggenheim fellowships

The honor recognizes talented mid-career faculty who have shown exceptional creativity and scholarship in their work and exhibit further promise.
Toddlers doing projects at Rockridge Little School
UC Berkeley |

The decades-long fight to make child care a national priority

Lack of support for early care and education reflects conventional thinking about the role of women, says trailblazing activist Marcy Whitebook.
A child drinking water
UC Riverside |

Manganese in Central Valley water threatens fetuses and children

Contamination is disproportionately harming lower-income communities.
Image of small gray polymer orbs
UC San Diego |

New hope for treating rheumatoid arthritis

A new biodegradable polymer system has been developed to treat rheumatoid arthritis by working in concert with the power of the human immune system.
A circuitboard with a blue chat robot icon wearing a headset hovering over it
UC Irvine |

A call to hit the ‘pause’ button on AI experiments

Tech experts have published an open letter about artificial intelligence and the race to create something we’re not sure we can control.
View of an urban LA park with a coyote statue
UCLA |

Would more parks and trees help L.A. County residents live longer?

UCLA-led study predicts that an equitable ‘greening’ plan could add up to a million years in collective life expectancy.
Orange California poppies blooming at the UC Davis Arboretum
UC Davis |

Superbloom or Superbust?

Six places you can see wildflowers as California blooms with life after a massive rainy season.
Woman walking through a flooded road with an umbrella
UC Irvine Magazine |

The coming flood: Meet the flood watchers

It may not attract the attention of earthquakes and wildfires, but a deluge is coming — fortunately, we have tools to predict and plan for it.
Bembidion brownorum beetle head
UC Berkeley |

Rare beetle, rediscovered after 55 years, named in honor of Jerry Brown

While sampling for insects on the former governor’s ranch, a UC Berkeley researcher found a species of beetle that has not been observed by scientists since 1966.
AJ Addae portrait
UCLA |

Creating a more inclusive beauty industry through science

UCLA doctoral student AJ Addae launched a company that develops cosmetics for people with darker skin tones.
Three people stand in white full-body suits in the yellow light of Nano3's cleanroom.
UC San Diego |

Nanotechnology training program creates career paths for veterans

With support from the National Science Foundation, the Qualcomm Institute is training veterans for careers in microelectronics and nanomanufacturing.