High on a mesa overlooking a nude beach was an archaeological hot spot. Read more...

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UCLA anthropology professor Gail Kennedy led a research team in 1976 that dug up ancient human remains at UCSD. These skeletons are at the center of current lawsuits between UCSD, three UC professors and the Kumeyaay, a Native American tribe.

A group of California students is working to discourage public universities from investing in coal, citing negative social and environmental effects. Read more...

The University of California has pulled its investments from controversial areas before, most prominently tobacco (in 2001) and companies in Sudan (in 2006). Read more...

Chinh Nguyen arranges wooden blocks, each in the shape of a miniaturized living space: doors, staircases, walls that are barely an inch long. Read more...

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Chinh Nguyen, a graduate student in architecture, works on a model of a modern Venice, Calif. home he constructed using a laser cutter. This is one of several innovations that have changed the workflow of architecture students in the past years.

Brown paper polygons seemed to creep out of the drawer and onto the side of the wall, creating an amorphous shape. Read more...

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Courtesy of CARMEL NI

Fourth-year art student Carmel Ni uses a room in her mother’s childhood home as a canvas for a gallery installation.