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University Of California stories:
Virginia journalism student wins Miss America crown
Jan 30th, 2010 - San Jose Mercury News
university, and wants to become an anchor. miss california kristy cavinder, of orange, was the first runner
3 Americans now held in Iran for half of a year
Jan 30th, 2010 - Boston
minneapolis-it's been six months since three young americans were taken into custody in iran, and the mother of one said even hiring an attorney in iran has brought no new information on how they are doing.Stimulus Money Seeds Big Rail Plans in California
Jan 28th, 2010 - Wall Street Journal
california will receive a $2.34 billion slice of the $8 billion of federal stimulus funds earmarked for high-speed rail projects, more than any other state. but that is only a sliver of the $42 billion it will need to build an 800-mile line to carry
Justice Stevens on How He Joined the Court
Jan 28th, 2010 - Wall Street Journal
grant has been endowed at the university of california, berkeley. mr. percy, 90, has alzheimer's diseaseResearchers coax bacteria to make biodiesel
Jan 27th, 2010 - CNET
biofuel start-up ls9 and california researchers on wednesday claimed a breakthrough in converting non-food biomass into biodiesel using a genetically modified form of e. coli bacteria.
the research, done with the university of california at berkeley
University Of California videos from YouTube:
56:18The Uses of the University Revisited
Hanna Holborn Gray is one of the most distinguished and accomplished leaders of American Higher Education. She explores Clark Kerrs classic work on the multiversity and the two different ideas of the university put forward by Kerr and Robert Maynard Hutchins ...
57:12UC San Diego Astronaut Megan McArthur (extended interview)
Megan mcarthur, Astronaut and UC San Diego graduate who served on the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, discusses the experience of becoming an astronaut. [Science] [Show ID: 18130]
29:46Vitamin D Prevents Cancer: Is It True?
In a new study, researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center used a complex computer prediction model to determine that intake of vitamin D3 and calcium would prevent 58000 new cases of breast cancer and 49000 new cases of colorectal cancer annually in the US and Canada ...
University Of California from WikiPedia:
The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University system and the California Community Colleges system.
The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined system and campus endowment of approximately US$10 billion, the 12th largest in the United States.
Its first campus, UC Berkeley, was founded in 1868, while its tenth and newest campus, UC Merced, opened for classes in fall 2005. All campuses enroll both undergraduate and graduate students, with two exceptions: UCSF enrolls only graduate and professional students in the medical and health sciences, and the independently administered UC Hastings enrolls only graduate and professional students in legal studies.
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