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UC claims top spots in new US News and World Report rankings

The UC system boasts five of the nation’s top 10 public universities, according to the U.S. News and World Report’s 2018 rankings released on Sept. 12. The list of best American colleges and universities is


UC alum Alice Waters on free speech and the making of a counterculture cook

In her new memoir, “Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook,” Alice Waters revisits a broad range of experiences, including her activism as a student at UC Berkeley during the heyday


Join President Napolitano and EVP Rachael Nava for a UCOP Town Hall this Friday, Sept. 15

You are invited to join President Napolitano and Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer Rachael Nava for an Office of the President town hall meeting this Friday, Sept. 15 from 9 to 10 a.m. President Napolitano


10 Second Bio: Peter Perez of UC Press

  Name: Peter Perez Title: Director, Public Relations & Communications Department/Unit: University of California Press Location: Oakland When I Started Working At UCOP: Oct. 2015 What I Do For OP In Five Words Or Less: Journalists + our publishing: reviews


UC Cancer Consortium takes on California’s $14B killer

UC’s five academic cancer centers, home to some of the world’s leading scientists and physicians, have formed the UC Cancer Consortium to better address California’s most pressing cancer-related problems and opportunities, President Napolitano and Dr.


President Napolitano at her desk

A letter from President Napolitano on the administration’s decision to end DACA

To the University of California Community: I am deeply troubled by President Trump’s decision today to effectively end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This backward-thinking decision is nothing less than a ­­broken promise to


FRIDAY: Women We Admire – Jocelyn Surla Banaria

Bring your lunch and join Jocelyn Surla Banaria, assistant director of the UC Academic Senate, for the next talk in the Women We Admire series. Date: Friday, Sept. 8 Time: 12-1 p.m. Location: Franklin Lobby 1 If you


UC campuses among the greenest in the country

  Seven UCs are among the top 50 most sustainable universities in the U.S., according to Sierra Magazine’s newly released 2017 “Cool Schools” list. UC Irvine ranked in the top 10 for the eighth consecutive year,


UC kicks off systemwide effort to support first-generation students

All 10 UC campuses will join together this fall in a systemwide effort to connect first-generation students with faculty mentors who have walked in their shoes, and to facilitate access to resources to help