California Colleges & Universities

X-ray reveals long-lost notes of historic opera

7 days ago

MENLO PARK, Calif. - Hidden for two centuries, concealed notes of a historic opera have been revealed, thanks to the X-ray vision at Stanford University's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Future filmmakers feted at Student Academy Awards

10 days ago

"- Rafael Cortina, Occidental College, California, Alterative category for "Bottled Up.

Philippine hero dog returns home from US

11 days ago

Filipino veterinarian Anton Lim who accompanied the dog - named Kabang - said Saturday the mixed-breed whose snout and upper jaw had been sheared off was treated at the University of California,...

Anti-gay marriage group tells Congress that IRS leaked confidential tax information

15 days ago

"The donor names were not redacted, but there was another redaction on the PDF document that had been posted, and NOM's computer analysts were able to remove the document's redaction layer and...

Hero dog released from Calif. veterinary hospital

16 days ago

The dog - named Kabang - was released Monday from the University of California, Davis veterinary hospital.

Father of ex-UCLA star charged in mortgage scam

18 days ago

Holmes' 20-year-old son left the University of California, Los Angeles, this spring for the NBA draft.

Project aims to track big city carbon footprints

38 days ago

And in nearby Pasadena, a refurbished vintage solar telescope on the roof of a laboratory on the California Institute of Technology campus captures sunlight and sends it down a shaft 60 feet...

Young gay athletes set tone for NBA coming out

46 days ago

Several campuses - including Princeton, the University of Michigan and the University of California, Berkeley - now have groups for gay and lesbian athletes.

Diverse high court families mirror country

98 days ago

Eastman also teaches law at Chapman University law school in Orange, Calif.

Nadal `very scared' after quake hits tourney

100 days ago

The 9:55 a.m. quake had an estimated magnitude of 4.7, according to the California Institute of Technology's seismological laboratory.

Farm labor shortage looms as California workers age

100 days ago

People simply are not doing farm work to the extent they were doing before," said J. Edward Taylor, a University of California, Davis, economist who has studied the migration of farmworkers from...

College credit recommended for free online courses

132 days ago

"There are many working adults today that do not have a college degree," Andrew Ng, a Stanford University researcher who co-founded Coursera, told The Associated Press.

Caltech baseball team ends 228-game skid

136 days ago

California Institute of Technology's baseball team ended a 228-game losing streak Saturday with a 9-7 victory over Pacifica - the Beavers' first win in nearly 10 years.

Powers of prophesy: Davos looks to the future

144 days ago

Sebastian Thrun, a computer science professor at Stanford University and leader of Google's Self-Driving Car Project, said he thinks Google co-founder Sergey Brin's prediction that within five...

Correction: Obit-Leon Leyson story

145 days ago

It always came from the head and the heart," said Marilyn Harran, his friend and a religious studies professor at Chapman University.

UC President Mark Yudof to step down in August

152 days ago

Yudof has led the University of California through a tumultuous period, when deep cuts in state funding led to sharp tuition hikes, cuts to academic programs and rowdy campus protests.

California Gov. Jerry Brown says budget deficit has disappeared

159 days ago

No new salary increases or furlough days are anticipated.· Child care: Proposes no new funds for various subsidized child-care programs, but calls for a study group to recommend streamlining of...

'California's Gold' host Huell Howser dies at 67

162 days ago

In 2011, Howser donated his entire catalog of episodes to Chapman University so that they could be digitized, posted to the Internet and made available free-of-charge.

Law students charged in Vegas bird beheading case

174 days ago

Prosecutors filed charges Thursday against two University of California, Berkeley, law school students accused of decapitating an exotic bird at a Las Vegas casino earlier this year.

Hero dog missing snout seems to have beaten cancer

176 days ago

A veterinarian at the University of California, Davis, has some good news about a dog from the Philippines who became an international hero after sacrificing its snout to save two young girls.