UC Irvine Extension is launching a new course within its engineering program titled, “Technical Writing for Engineering, Information Technology and Science Professionals.” Course topics include: the challenges of scientific writing, creative persuasive proposals and writing summaries. The course will be offered online from March 31-June 13.

The San Francisco Chronicle, the Daily Californian, and the Daily Bruin are reporting on a proposal to dramatically change admissions to the University of California.

As part of University of California, Irvine Extension’s new series of Human Resources Management Webinars, an online “Virtual Workplace” Webinar will be hosted Monday, September 24 at 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m..

University of California President Robert C. Dynes - a first-generation college graduate and renowned physicist who rose to become president of the world's most prestigious public university system - announced today (Aug. 13) his intention to step down as president by June 2008.

The University of California and its Santa Barbara campus, along with California State University and the Higher Education Energy Partnership, will host the sixth annual UC-CSU-CCC Sustainability Conference on Sunday, June 24 through Wednesday, June 27, at the UCSB campus.

Wisdom comes with age (doesn't it?), but not without a process that takes place in the brain called myelination.

Parkinson's disease is well-known for its progression of motor disorders: stiffness, slowness, tremors, difficulties walking and talking.

Regular as clockwork, the flu arrives every year.

The baby brothers and sisters of autistic children do not seek emotional cues from adults, or respond to them, as often as other toddlers do, suggests new research from the University of California, San Diego.

The latest in clean alternative-energy resources and the promise for transportation will be the focus of the California Clean Innovation 2007 (CACI) conference to be held Friday, May 11, on the campus of the California Institute of Technology. The conference is open to the public by registration.

A study by U.S. and Australian researchers is helping dispel the 40-year-old "thrifty genotype theory," which purports that certain minority groups are genetically prone to diabetes.

A vaccine for treating a recurrent cancer of the central nervous system that occurs primarily in the brain has shown promise in preliminary data from a clinical trial at the University of California, San Francisco.