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UC commits $3.3 million to improve food access for students

The action follows a UC survey that indicated four out of 10 UC students do not have a consistent supply of nutritious food.


Want to get healthier? Help is just a click away.

UC health plans provide many wellness resources, from nutritional advice to fitness discounts to phone coaching.


UC Press to begin publishing science journal Elementa

Elementa will become a core part of the open access ecosystem at UC Press, alongside the journal Collabra and the open access monograph program Luminos.


UC admits 15 percent more California freshmen for fall 2016 and increases diversity

On Wednesday, July 6, UC released data showing significant gains in the number of California freshman and transfer students admitted to UC campuses for fall 2016, including those from historically underrepresented groups. The admissions data


UC ramps up role for White House’s Cancer Moonshot

At the White House’s Cancer Moonshot Summit on Wednesday, June 29, Vice President Joe Biden announced new actions to speed progress toward ending cancer as we know it, with several efforts involving UC. The Cancer


UCOP’s UC Libraries Digital Collection Project wins information technology award

Ten teams across UC won the 2016 Larry L. Sautter Award for using information technology to make university operations more effective and efficient and to better serve faculty, staff, students and patients. UCOP’s UC Libraries Digital


UC Retirement Choice Program launches for new employees

Eligible employees who were hired on or after July 1, 2016, will have two retirement benefits options: Pension Choice or Savings Choice.


The girl who wants to end hunger

This story starts with a single cabbage. But it wasn’t just any cabbage, however. It was a 40-pound cabbage, grown by a 9-year-old girl named Katie Stagliano. This young gardener donated that huge cabbage to


UC Davis students compete to design the next great food craze

Want to buy probiotic hot sauce; fried ice cream sandwiches; sweet, stuffed ravioli; and even spoon-shaped biscotti, laden with matcha tea and white chocolate? You can’t just yet but some visionary UC Davis food science