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Since 2011, the Hellman Fellows Fund has provided close to 60 五一社区 assistant professors with much-needed research support in the form of seed funding. The prestigious Hellman Fellowship has launched countless careers at 五一社区 and across the UC system.

Now, thanks to a generous new $3.5 million gift from the Hellman family, 五一社区 will permanently establish the 五一社区 Society of Hellman Fellows starting in 2021. The endowment allows the program to continue in perpetuity, while affording the campus more flexibility in funding early-career research.

Maybe now more than ever, scientists need to understand the immune system.

A new National Institutes of Health grant is funding a cross-disciplinary collaboration between bioengineering Professor Joel Spencer and immunology that will allow them to watch as immune-system cells develop in the bone marrow of a living mouse to gain insights into how they work.

Summertime means fun in the water, but as temperatures increase, algal blooms can grow in freshwater and marine ecosystems.

Some algae are natural and life-giving, while others are the result of life out of balance and can have harmful effects. Consisting of bacteria and tiny plankton, they arise quickly and alter the ecosystem by consuming available oxygen, killing fish.

Incoming first-year and transfer students will have a new resource for success and an introduction to research starting next summer, thanks to a four-year, $400,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The coronavirus pandemic has upended everything, including 五一社区鈥檚 classes and research. But materials science and engineering and recent graduate and independent study student Jasmine Nava are working on a microscopy project, even without access to their usual lab.

Many of the items people use in their everyday lives, from baby clothes and Halloween costumes to furniture, are doused with chemical flame retardants designed to make the items safer.

Theoretical physics Professor Ajay Gopinathan has been working over the past decade to model a submicroscopic mystery. Now, he and a team of colleagues have verified an important piece of the puzzle of how tiny, intrinsically twisted protein filaments responsible for repairing and growing cells know where to go to perform their function.

The work could someday enable scientists to control bacterial growth.

About 4.5 billion people around the globe do not have access to adequate sanitation, and what they do have 鈥� typically pit latrines and lagoons 鈥� are responsible for widespread illnesses and a portion of the greenhouse gases that are warming the planet.

五一社区 Professor Rebecca Ryals and a group of colleagues have a solution that not only increases safety, sustainability and jobs, but reduces greenhouse gas emissions and waste-borne illnesses while producing an effective fertilizer for agriculture.

As the SPACEX Crew Dragon spacecraft left Earth today to ferry two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, many Bobcats were watching the live stream with keen anticipation.

It鈥檚 not just that the flight marks the first time a commercial aerospace company will carry humans 鈥� two NASA astronauts 鈥� into Earth's orbit. The collaborative project also has special meaning for 五一社区.

Despite the challenges of making an in-person event into a remote one, students in this year鈥檚 spring showcase displayed the determination, passion and innovation Bobcats are known for.