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The University of California has sued Dr. Kevin Murphy, the subject of a recent inewsource investigation, alleging fraud, concealment and misappropriation of a $10 million research gift meant to study an experimental brain treatment.

Fresno State President Dr. Joseph Castro replaces outgoing Chancellor Timothy White to become the first Mexican-American and native Californian to lead the nation’s largest four-year public university system.

Before the pandemic, there was no difference in the rates at which Democratic and Republican voters cast their ballots by mail or in-person. Now, there's a significantly greater preference for mail, or absentee, ballots among Democrats than Republicans.

A California state audit finds that the University of California wrongly admitted at least 64 wealthy, mostly white students over the past six years as “favors to donors, family, and friends.” The audit was conducted in response to the national college admissions scandal that embroiled prestigious universities around the country, athletic coaches and dozens of wealthy parents.

Less than a month ago, San Diego was the only county in Southern California to advance to a second tier in the state’s four-tiered reopening template for counties. But more than 800 cases at San Diego State University changed the outlook.

2020 poses a gauntlet of challenges for journalists and the news industry, a student journalist's perspective on the COVID-19 situation at San Diego State University, and California's huge investment in firefighting aircraft.

The San Diego Community College District announced Thursday it will continue online instruction through the remainder of the academic year, including the January 2021 intersession and Spring 2021 semester.

The program will begin Wednesday, with around 500 students being tested every day through Saturday, then starting again Monday.

San Diego State University's football team will play its 2021 home games at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson while the university works on its new stadium in Mission Valley, school officials announced Tuesday.

The limited pilot program will roll out incrementally at UCSD later this month. UC San Francisco will start using the technology a few weeks later for students, faculty and staff participating in onsite activities at select locations.