Immigration policy poses unique challenge for undocumented undergrads
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- Written by Kathy Wyer
- Category: California News
Los Angeles, California - Nearly a quarter of a million undocumented undergraduates, who largely come from low-income families and work their way through college, are experiencing unique challenges and high levels of stress as they struggle to succeed in higher education, according to a UCLA study.
UC Davis developing faster, more accurate robotic cultivator
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- Written by Pat Bailey
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Davis, California - Controlling weeds could soon become more effective, affordable and sustainable for vegetable growers in California and beyond, thanks to a system under development at UC Davis that will help plants communicate with a robotic cultivator.
Face blindness predicted by structural differences in the brain
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- Written by Leslie Willoughby
- Category: California News
Stanford, California - Recognizing the faces of family and friends seems vital to social interaction. However, some individuals lack this essential skill. Those with a condition called face blindness, or prosopagnosia, can see eyes, lips and other facial features, yet they cannot remember the whole picture, a face. The condition touches one in 50 people, including actor Brad Pitt, neurologist Oliver Sacks and primatologist Jane Goodall. Now Stanford neuroscientists have discovered that the structure of the wiring in the brain is key to predicting the condition.
Higher ed in crisis? Make that plural, says veteran observer
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- Written by Barry Bergman
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Berkeley, California - Goldie Blumenstyk, who’s followed the world of colleges and universities for more than a quarter-century as a writer for the Chronicle of Higher Education, titled her new book American Higher Education in Crisis? What Everyone Needs to Know. A reader need only peek at the introduction to find her answer.
Bioengineers develop tool for reprogramming genetic code
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- Written by Bjorn Carey
- Category: California News
Stanford, California - Biology relies upon the precise activation of specific genes to work properly. If that sequence gets out of whack, or one gene turns on only partially, the outcome can often lead to a disease.
Lentils, a mighty force for improving the food system
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- Written by Carol Ness
- Category: California News
Berkeley, California - Lentils probably aren’t going to knock bacon off the nation’s plates anytime soon. But “Lentil Underground,” a new book by a recent Ph.D. and ongoing researcher at UC Berkeley, makes the case that lentils - and similar legumes - could help restore American farmland and farmers whose soil and profits have been depleted by decades of industrial agriculture.
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