Press releases and statements

Monday, December 19, 2016

California freshman applications to UC continue record-breaking climb

More than 111,600 California high school seniors applied for admission to the University of California’s fall 2017 freshman class, a 6 percent increase over last year, according to preliminary data released Dec. 19.

Monday, December 12, 2016

UC awards $17M in grants for critical, innovative research

Fifteen highly meritorious projects across a wide range of disciplines and topics were selected from a pool of 97 eligible applications.

Thursday, December 1, 2016

UC president announces 2017 Research Catalyst Awards

University of California President Janet Napolitano today (Dec. 1) announced the 2017 recipients of the President’s Research Catalyst Awards, chosen from a pool of more than 100 proposed projects.

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

University of California releases principles in support of UC community members

The University of California announced that it will vigorously protect the privacy and civil rights of the undocumented members of the UC community and will direct its police departments not to undertake joint efforts with any government agencies to enforce…

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