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  University of California

  

  UC celebrates 150 years of pioneering a better future

  Fiat Lux - Carolyn McMillan

  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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  University of California

  

  Campus’s economic impact on state nears $3 billion

  Fiat Lux - James Leonard

  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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  University of California

  

  Former street kid fulfills educational promise with Ph.D.

  Fiat Lux - Brenda Ortiz

  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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  University of California

  

  SF Mayor Ed Lee never forgot his Berkeley roots

  Fiat Lux - Will Kane

  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 …

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  University of California

  

  The evolutionary advantage of the teenage brain

  Fiat Lux - Andy Murdock

  Teens. OMG. What on earth is going on inside their brains to make them act so, well, like crazy teenagers? The mood swings, the fiery emotions, the delusions of immortality, all the things that make a teenager a teenager might just seem like a phase we all have to put up with. However, research …

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  University of California

  

  The new science of acting

  Fiat Lux - Megan Cole

  There is a recipe for sorrow: Draw a long breath, followed by two quick, choppy ones. Let your head hang to your chest. Furrow your brow, let the corners of your mouth droop and — by thinking of something tragic, real or fabricated — allow the tears to well up and flow. There are formulas for …