We believe all students have the right to live and study in a safe and welcoming environment. To that end, the university has adopted principles to vigorously protect the privacy and civil rights of ...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably picked up on a growing anxiety around plastic pollution. What does all this plastic pollution mean for the health of people and the planet? And ...

Mike Beck has an enviable commute: an eight-mile drive along the coastal bluffs that separate the city of Santa Cruz from the ocean. In his 25 years as a professor of coastal sciences at UC Santa Cruz ...

Rapa Nui (or Easter Island, as it is commonly known) is home to the enigmatic Moai, stone monoliths that have stood watch over the island landscape for hundreds of years. Their existence is a marvel ...

In the past year, UC researchers have boldly gone where most of us would never go, not even if you paid us. They peered into the depths of the universe and plumbed the mysteries of the human body, ...

Cancer takes a staggering toll on American lives and families: Nearly 40 percent of people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with the disease at some point in their lives, and almost 1 in 5 Americans will ...

Young voters from the millennial generation and Gen Z are emerging as the demographic center of power in American politics, but new studies by UC Berkeley researchers find they are fatalistic about ...

Omar Yaghi, a Jordanian-American chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry today, sharing it with Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne, ...

If you’re applying to college this fall, you may have heard the term “comprehensive review.” It’s an approach that many schools, including the University of California, use to make admissions ...

Alzheimer’s disease is one of humanity’s most formidable foes. It affects 10 percent of people over age 65 and kills more people each year than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined. Its effects ...

The University of California has set a new world record for the most Nobel Prizes awarded to one university system in a single year. Over the course of three days this month, UC faculty earned four ...

University of California faculty and alumni won five Nobel Prizes this week, highlighting the ongoing contributions of America’s #1 public research university and the central role of federal funding ...