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Prepare to be amazed! UC graduate students wow with 3-minute talks at Grad Slam

Get a master class — in brief — on cutting-edge UC discoveries as graduate students explain their complex research in just 3 minutes flat.

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UC graduate programs and schools lead the nation in the 2025-26 U.S. News Best Graduate Schools rankings

UC once again earned top marks, including a slew of No. 1 rankings, across its schools of business, education, engineering, law, medicine and nursing, and programs in humanities and the social sciences.

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UC San Francisco |

Why some prostate cancers shouldn't be called 'cancer'

According to a UC San Francisco urology professor, benefits of a less aggressive approach include less surgery, radiation and hormones — not to mention reduced anxiety for patients.
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UC Berkeley |

Anxious about the election? UC Berkeley psychologists explain how to cope

Step away from the screens. Reconnect with your community. And think in the long term rather than in day-to-day headlines, UC Berkeley researchers said.
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UCLA |

Meeting the challenge for student success as an AANAPISI Institution

The designation creates more opportunities to better serve Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander students.
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UC Newsroom |

Should California give up on Highway 1?

The same forces that have made this one of the world's most epic roads could be what causes its obliteration, says UC Santa Cruz geologist Gary Griggs.
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UC Davis |

UC Davis achieves Hispanic-Serving Institution eligibility, serving more than 8,000 Latino students

UC Davis is now eligible to be one of the nation’s few research-intensive universities designated as a Hispanic-Serving Institution, or HSI, after fall enrollment numbers crossed the threshold for HSI status for the first time.
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UC Santa Cruz |

A popular Humanities course is unwrapping the strange and fraught history and cultural afterlife of Egyptian mummies.

This spooky, one-of-a-kind class grew out of a years-long friendship between two professors fascinated by the connections between each other’s work.
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UC San Diego |

A new kind of authoritarianism: Democracy in decline at home and abroad

‘Future of Democracy’ faculty at UC San Diego sound the alarm on threats to democracy with new research.
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UC Santa Barbara |

Is ‘U-shaped happiness’ universal? Not for rural subsistence populations, say researchers

People in industrialized societies tend to be happiest in early and late life. New research from UC Santa Barbara shows that pattern is far from universal.
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UC Riverside |

Cultural war conflicts cost US schools billions of dollars

A team including faculty from UC Riverside launched a school superintendent survey, which provides an estimate of costs to K-12 schools for dealing with conflicts over race, LGBTQ+ rights, and book bans.
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UC Berkeley |

Capturing carbon from the air just got easier

UC Berkeley scientists developed a new type of porous material called a covalent organic framework, which quickly sucks up carbon dioxide from ambient air.
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UC Newsroom |

How UC students are unlocking the power of the youth vote

Meet UC students doing their part this election season to keep our democracy strong.
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UC Newsroom |

Applying to UC? A new data dashboard sheds light on admissions for each academic discipline

Find out how to use the information and understand what it can and can't tell you.