Friday, June 19

UC shares in bid for lab

The University of California, along with other companies, has just entered a bid to manage the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which specializes in nuclear research ““ one week after an apparent security breach in another UC-managed nuclear research facility, Los Alamos National Laboratory. Read more...



Urging holistic approach

In a system-wide movement that could change the University of California’s admissions process, a group of UC professors Friday proposed expanding a holistic approach to all 10 campuses. Read more...


Learning by living abroad

Living with no running water and limited electricity, Orit Stieglitz spent a year in southern Israel studying the lives of Bedouin women, Muslims who once wandered the Middle East and are now transitioning from a nomadic lifestyle to one that is more urban and stationary. Read more...




Plan targets aging infrastructure

With California’s population projected to increase by 20 million over the next 20 years, the state legislature has drafted the Rebuild California plan, five proposals on the Nov. Read more...