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FILE - This March 7, 2018 file photo shows University of California President Janet Napolitano at a meeting of The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. At a meeting of the UC regents at UCLA Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, Napolitano announced that she will be resigning the presidency, effective in 2020. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

University of California chief Janet Napolitano to step down

By JOCELYN GECKER - Associated Press

University of California to dump fossil fuel investments

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FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2015, file photo, students walk on the University of California, Los Angeles campus. Xiaoning Sui, 48, of Surrey, British Columbia, is accused of paying $400,000 to get her son into the University of California, Los Angeles, as a fake soccer recruit. She has become the 52nd person charged in a sweeping college admissions bribery scheme, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, in Boston's federal court. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

University of California divests of fossil fuel in pension and endowment funds

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UC system accepts record number of California applicants

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FILE - In this June 30, 2015, file photo, Jennifer Wonnacott holds her son, Gavin, as he points to a sign showing supporters of a measure requiring nearly all California school children to be vaccinated, at a news conference after the State Bill 277 was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in Sacramento, Calif. State health officials say the number of measles cases in 2019 is up in California with cases stretching across 11 counties and affecting patients from 5 months to 55 years of age. Dr. Karen Smith, director of the California Department of Public Health, says more than 76% of patients were not vaccinated or didn't receive the recommended two doses of vaccine. Fourteen of those infected had traveled overseas to countries including Philippines, Thailand, India and Ukraine. Measles symptoms include high fever, a cough and a rash. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

The Latest: Cal State LA measles quarantine grows to 656

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FILE - In this Saturday, March 9, 2019 file photo, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally, at the Iowa state fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa. A union representing research and technical workers said it will strike Wednesday, March 20, at 10 University of California campuses and 5 hospitals in a one-day walkout after contract negotiations failed. The biggest rally is expected at the University of California, Los Angeles, where Sanders is scheduled to march and give a speech. (AP Photo/Matthew Putney, File)

Workers stage 1-day strike at California campuses, hospitals

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The Latest: Research, technical workers strike UC system

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FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2017 file photo, Kristine Pond reacts as she searches the remains of her family's home destroyed by a fire in Santa Rosa, Calif. Investigators say a deadly 2017 wildfire that killed 22 people in California's wine country was caused by a private electrical system, not embattled Pacific Gas &amp; Electric Co. The state's firefighting agency said Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019, that the Tubbs Fire started next to a residence. They did not find any violations of state law. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Experts: PG&E bankruptcy likely despite positive fire report

By SUDHIN THANAWALA - Associated Press

FILE - This Jan. 11, 2019, file photo shows flowers at a memorial outside of the Davis Police Department for slain Davis Police Officer Natalie Corona in Davis, Calif. Police officers from across the country are expected at a memorial service on Friday, Jan. 18, 2019, for Corona, a 22-year-old rookie who had long dreamed of being an officer, and was slain just weeks into the job after responding to a traffic crash in a Northern California college town. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)

The Latest: Service for fallen officer ends with procession

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In this Oct. 10, 2018, photo, scientist He Jiankui speaks during an interview in Shenzhen in southern China's Guandong province. China's government on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018, ordered a halt to work by a medical team that claimed to have helped make the world's first gene-edited babies. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Could anyone have stopped gene-edited babies experiment?

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE and CHRISTINA LARSON - Associated Press

About 15,000 strike at University of California hospitals

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The Latest: University of California workers start strike

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton receives an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Provost Peter Salovey center, and University President Richard Levin, left, at the Yale University commencement in New Haven, Conn. Monday, May 25, 2009. Clinton is a Yale Law School graduate and met Bill Clinton there in 1970.

Democrats dominate colleges and universities’ faculty campaign donations, especially in Ivy League

By James Varney - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 27, 2018, photo provided by Green Grazing, Australis Aquaculture employee Khanh Huynh checks on seaweed cultures, near Ninh Hai, Vietnam, Australis’s “Greener Grazing” project seeks to make a kind of seaweed that helps reduce methane emissions in livestock available to more farmers. (Josh Goldman/Green Grazing via AP)

Gassy cows are bad for the planet; could seaweed diet help?

By PATRICK WHITTLE - Associated Press

Correction: Asian-Americans-Affirmative Action story

By JANIE HAR - Associated Press

In this Jan. 25, 2017, file photo, members of the University of California Board of Regents listen to testimony from employees and students in San Francisco. The University of California will lower tuition by $60 for the upcoming academic year. The UC Board of Regents approved the decrease Thursday. It's the university system's first tuition decrease in nearly two decades. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

University of California approves small decrease in tuition

By SOPHIA BOLLAG - Associated Press

Demonstrators shout slogans during a free speech rally Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Berkeley, Calif. Several thousand people converged in Berkeley Sunday for a "Rally Against Hate" in response to a planned right-wing protest that raised concerns of violence and triggered a massive police presence. Several people were arrested for violating rules against covering their faces or carrying items banned by authorities. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) **FILE**

Young Americans for Liberty notches free-speech win at Berkeley over club recognition

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2015, file photo, University of California President Janet Napolitano addresses a Board of Regents meeting at the UC Irvine Student Center to discuss a controversial policy statement on intolerance in Irvine, Calif. State auditors on Thursday, June 21, 2018, faulted the University of California for not addressing sexual misconduct complaints on time and not disciplining faculty swiftly. They found some people accused of misconduct continued to sexually harass others after they were disciplined ineffectively. They also found the UC system is slower to discipline faculty than staff. UC President Janet Napolitano says the system accepts the audit report's recommendations and is working to improve. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Audit faults University of California sex misconduct process

By SOPHIA BOLLAG - Associated Press

FILE - This undated file aerial photo shows the Los Alamos National laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. The U.S. government has awarded a team of two universities and a research firm with offices around the world a $2.5 billion-a-year contract to manage Los Alamos National Laboratory. (The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)

New $2.5B contract awarded to manage nuclear weapons lab

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press