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Fresh faces on campus: Welcoming UC’s newest undergrads. Our new undergrads have never been more diverse or more inspiring. Here are a few of their stories. Featured Story. UC Berkeley | Monday, October 7, 2024.
University of California secures top spots in 2024-25 U.S. News …
Sep 23, 2024 · UCLA and UC Berkeley are the top public universities in the nation, with 7 University of California campuses in the top 30 and all nine campuses in the top 45 according to the 2024-25 Best Colleges rankings, published today by U.S. News & World Report.
University of California earns top spots in 2023-24 U.S. News …
Sep 18, 2023 · UC Berkeley and UCLA tied for the best public university in the country, with six University of California undergraduate campuses among the top 20 and all nine in the top 40, according to the new 2023-24 Best Colleges rankings, …
UC sets new record with largest, most diverse class of California ...
Jul 31, 2024 · The University of California admitted the largest, most diverse class of Californians for fall 2024, with gains in low-income, first-generation and underrepresented students.
After strike, UC and graduate student workers reach tentative …
Dec 17, 2022 · After a five-week strike that shut down classes and labs and unleashed grading turmoil, UC and graduate student workers reached a tentative agreement Friday.
A Breakthrough in the University of California Labor Dispute
Nov 30, 2022 · With the University of California strike in its third week — and threatening to encroach on final exams for some 300,000 students — negotiators announced a breakthrough on Tuesday: a...
Capturing carbon from the air just got easier - Berkeley News
Oct 23, 2024 · A new type of absorbing material developed by chemists at the University of California, Berkeley, could help get the world to negative emissions. The porous material — a covalent organic framework (COF) — captures CO 2 from ambient air without degradation by water or other contaminants, one of the limitations of existing DAC technologies ...
University of California, workers reach deal to end strike - NPR
Dec 17, 2022 · The monthlong strike by graduate student teaching assistants and other academic workers disrupted classes at all 10 campuses. The agreement needs to be ratified before the strike officially ends.
University of California workers end strike, ratify contract : NPR
Dec 24, 2022 · Striking graduate students at the University of California approved a bargaining agreement Friday, ending an unprecedented 40-day strike that snarled classes at the prestigious university...
Five UC-affiliated scientists win 2024 Nobel Prizes | University of ...
Oct 16, 2024 · David Baker, a UC Berkeley Ph.D. recipient, shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Credit: Ian C. Haydon, University of Washington Medicine This year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry is shared by David Baker, a biochemist who received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1989 working with Randy Schekman, a professor of molecular and cell biology who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.