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UC celebrates 150 years of pioneering a better future
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The University of California began 150 years ago on a simple, but revolutionary idea: that college should be available to everyone. That bold, forward-looking spirit has stayed with the University of California ever since. Just two years after it was created in 1868, the UC Board of Regents decreed …
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Campus’s economic impact on state nears $3 billion
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UC Merced has infused nearly $3 billion into California’s economy since its inception — including more than $1.6 billion in the San Joaquin Valley — in salaries, goods and construction awards. Those figures take into account work on the Merced 2020 Project, an ambitious and award-winning campus …
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Wounded sea turtle healed with 3-D printing
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Birch Aquarium has teamed up with UC San Diego Library’s Digital Media Lab to create what is believed to be the first 3-D-printed brace for a sea turtle’s shell. The Loggerhead Sea Turtle was rescued from a New Jersey power plant in 2013 with a large gap in the bottom right part of her shell. This …
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Former street kid fulfills educational promise with Ph.D.
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As a teenager in Merced, Marcus Shaw lived a life marked by poverty, poor choices and indifference to education. The idea of college — especially at the new UC Merced campus — seemed like an opportunity for someone else. Yet on Dec. 16, Shaw will participate in the university’s first Fall …
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As genetic testing grows popular, UCSF clinic emerges to provide context
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The ease by which patients can dive into their own genetics has opened new doors to understanding personal health, but it has also left consumers with mounds of information to digest before they can make informed decisions. “We’re at a transformational point in genetics,” says Ophir Klein, M.D., …
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SF Mayor Ed Lee never forgot his Berkeley roots
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From his days as a young law student living on Blake Street to his time as the mayor of California’s fourth-largest city, Ed Lee was deeply connected to UC Berkeley’s community, friends and former colleagues said. Lee, a 1978 graduate of Berkeley Law, then called Boalt Hall, died early Tuesday at …