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Goosby to collaborate on $94 million USAID STAR Award to PIH
May 23, 2018
This five year project improves the technical capacity of emerging global health leaders and creates sustainable partnerships for open exchange.
Global TIES team earns honors for solar lantern project
May 23, 2018
Undergraduate students from UC San Diego designed and built an affordable solar-powered lantern to provide light, and income, to a partner village in the Philippines.
International partners receive funding to study sexual violence
May 22, 2018
The Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment COE supports four international campus-based violence prevention research projects.
Research offers new insights into malaria parasite
May 18, 2018
UC Riverside’s Karine Le Roch has received a new NIH grant of $3.2 million to continue work on Plasmodium falciparum.
New Fulbright awards strengthen campus study abroad initiatives
May 18, 2018
Two staff members in UC Merced’s Office of International Affairs have earned Fulbright awards that will help the campus expand and develop study-abroad opportunities for students.
Lab-confirmed prenatal exposure to Zika is linked to cardiac defects in infants
May 18, 2018
UCLA researchers find evidence that infants with laboratory confirmation of Zika exposure before birth have a higher prevalence of major cardiac defects.
Dr. Haile T. Debas on making a contribution to underdeveloped countries In Africa
May 15, 2018
On this edition of In Black America, Debas talks about being a physician, researcher, teacher and academic leader.
Global Programs Offices strengthen UC researchers’ work in Africa
May 15, 2018
Offices abroad provide UC researchers with financial management, procurement, logistics and compliance services, as well as local technical expertise.
Back at UC, but still having global impact
May 14, 2018
Former GloCal fellow and current UC Riverside professor, Jennifer Syvertsen, reflects on her mentors, work in Kenya and plans for the future.
Farming fish could save land
May 10, 2018
A team from UC Santa Barbara conducts the first land-use analysis of future food systems focusing on aquatic farming.
Food for thought takes on new meaning for UC Global Food Initiative fellows at UCLA
May 10, 2018
This program was founded to provide solutions to combat local, national and global hunger.
Three decades before the #MeToo movement, UC San Diego led the way against sexual assault
May 10, 2018
Nancy Wahlig has pioneered sexual violence prevention and care since the '80s.
VIDEO: University of Washington professor explains a socio-technical approach to refugee education
May 10, 2018
Negin Dahya presents at UC Irvine, describes information and community technology in Kenyan refugee camps.
UC Davis announces two new partnerships with Australian entities
May 10, 2018
UC Davis addresses pressing challenges in the global agrifood sector through partnerships with Australian entities.
Climate change is ruining California’s environment, report warns
May 10, 2018
UC scientists contribute to a new report outlining the human, animal and environmental impacts of climate change.
Engineering students contribute to global health solutions
May 3, 2018
Students from across the University of California apply their engineering skills to water supply, civil works, sanitation, agriculture and energy projects abroad.
UC researchers at the forefront of drought management
May 3, 2018
Researchers from UC Santa Barbara and international partners link human behavior and hydrologic modeling to better assess water resource risks.
Three new members join the UCGHI Board of Directors
May 2, 2018
New board members from UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara and UC Santa Cruz joined UCGHI in April, 2018.
UC Riverside graduate student receives Ford Foundation fellowship
April 26, 2018
Prestigious fellowship will allow first generation college grad, Donovan Argueta, to continue his research on what drives increased eating behaviors in obesity.
Bill McKibben, Daniel Ellsberg headline Right Livelihood Laureates' conference at UC Santa Cruz
April 26, 2018
Recipients of the "Alternative Nobel Prize" gather to advance social and environmental justice; public events focus on climate change, water, nuclear threat.
UC Merced professor and students recognized for research excellence
April 26, 2018
Professor Susana Ramirez and doctoral student Erendira Estrada were recognized for their project addressing food insecurity in rural Latino communities.
Study forecasts a severe climate future for California
April 26, 2018
UCLA research predicts dramatic shifts between extreme dry and extreme wet weather by end of 21st century.
Fulbright’s finest
April 26, 2018
UC Irvine rates as top-producing school for prestigious international exchange program.
For Rosa Furneaux, winner of the Dorothea Lange Fellowship, photography begins with trust
April 26, 2018
UC Berkeley graduate student tells the stories of young women and girls in Kenya through visual art.
Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence DNA from all complex life
April 26, 2018
UC Davis, along with an international consortium of scientists, is proposing what is arguably the most ambitious project in the history of biology.
Center for AIDS research funding renewed for an old and on-going fight
April 26, 2018
Five-year, $15 million federal grant supports continued studies of HIV/AIDS at UC San Diego.
Preventive use of common antibiotic reduces child mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa
April 26, 2018
A study led by UCSF scientists, shows giving drug ‘at scale’ is a life-saving intervention for vulnerable children.
UC Merced's first student Fulbright Scholar heads to El Salvador for research
April 13, 2018
Graduate student Danielle Bermudez will spend the next 10 months conducting research and serving as a cultural ambassador for the campus as a Fulbright US Student Researcher.
The secret to making it out of poverty
April 13, 2018
UC Irvine's Martín Burt finds families that overcome poverty have one thing in common — and it isn't income.
UC San Diego’s sexual assault awareness month events mark pioneering prevention and support efforts
April 13, 2018
Campus’s sexual Assault Resource Center celebrates 30 years of innovative work throughout April.