UC Advocacy Network

10/16/2026

UCAN advocates showed up! During the Rally for Medical Research, over 600 advocates sent nearly 2,000 messages to Congress to support strong National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding. Thank you for speaking up. ucal.us/speakupforscience

10/16/2026

Registering to vote takes about five minutes. Do it online now. ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4rwA0he

10/14/2026

Want to advocate on behalf of the University of California? Are you ready to help shape the future? If the answer to those questions is yes, then the UCAN Student Ambassador Program is for you! Apply by Oct. 30. ucal.us/ucanapply

10/13/2026

Francis Halzen just won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for leading IceCube, a one-of-a-kind observatory buried deep in the Antarctic ice that gives scientists a whole new way to study the universe. The project began as a collaboration between Halzen, UC Berkeley and University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose researchers helped turn an ambitious idea into reality. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a bold, curiosity-driven idea grew into a Nobel-winning breakthrough.

When Francis Halzen first proposed an experiment in the Antarctic ice to detect high-energy neutrinos, Berkeley’s Buford Price was all in.

10/12/2026

First-time voter? 👉 Get registered.

Voted before? 👉 Double-check your registration and address. https://bit.ly/4rwA0he

10/12/2026

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation.”

This year’s laureates in economic sciences, Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford, have developed new macroeconomic models that have significantly improved our ability to implement effective stabilisation policy. On the basis of these models, well-timed fiscal and monetary policy measures can reduce the economy’s peaks and troughs.

The economy is characterised by alternating downturns and upturns. Ever since the economist John Maynard Keynes launched his theories almost a century ago, stabilisation policy has been important for tackling these fluctuations. During recessions, the economy is boosted by reducing interest rates and increasing the budget deficit, while the opposite should be done to slow a booming economy.

However, during the oil crises of the 1970s, it seemed that the Keynesian models that govern when and how measures should be implemented no longer worked. They did not reduce unemployment, but led to uncontrolled inflation instead. The West experienced a decade of low growth, high unemployment and high inflation. Many people believed that stabilisation policy had done more harm than good and that it should be retired.

Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford have been awarded this year’s prize in economic sciences for demonstrating how economic models could be reconstructed to revitalise stabilisation policy. Rather than basing the models on statistical links between macroeconomic variables, such as inflation, production and consumption, they chose to build them on a microeconomic foundation. This encompasses an understanding for how the total mass of individual households and businesses affect the economy through their actions.

A central component in these models is that households and businesses are forward looking when making decisions about savings or product prices. When governments and central banks communicate their plans for economic policy, they can influence this view of the future and move the economy in the right direction. Since the new models’ introduction, they have been extremely helpful in dealing with the economic downturns that have affected us.

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10/05/2026

UCAN Student Ambassador applications are now open! We are looking for University of California students who want to share their stories with lawmakers and help shape state and federal legislation. Apply to be a UCAN Student Ambassador by Oct. 30! Learn more and apply here: https://bit.ly/4zeDcAw

10/02/2026

What does the University of California's work with national laboratories make possible? UC President James B. Milliken reflects on his recent visit to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the importance of UC’s research partnerships with the federal government. https://bit.ly/4rLBWCw

I recently had the good fortune to visit Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), one of the three national laboratories that UC helps manage on behalf of the federal government.

10/01/2026

Governor Gavin Newsom has signed SB 895, the California Science and Health Research Bond Act.

The University of California community sent nearly 17,000 emails to lawmakers in support of California research.

Reaching this milestone took an extraordinary effort from researchers, students, patients, workers, and advocates from across California. Thank you to everyone who spoke up and helped make research a statewide priority.

10/01/2026