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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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Two Berkeley Lab projects to “see” into the soil.
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Berkeley Lab awarded $4.6M for transformational agriculture technologies

Two projects will provide a window to the underground, yielding information on roots and soil.
UC Merced economic impact
UC Merced |

Economic impact of UC Merced rises to $2.6B

Campus contributions to the state include more than $1.4B to the San Joaquin Valley, with more to come.
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UC Newsroom |

The most viral UC research of 2016

UC research comprised 14 of the 100 journal articles that got the most media attention in 2016. Take a look at what got the world talking.
UC Davis plant geneticist Jorge Dubcovsky examines one of the wheat plants being raised in an indoor growth chamber.
UC Davis |

New grant funds search for wheat-yield genes

National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant to include training for future plant breeders.
Professor Charlie Bamforth, left, and brewer Joe Williams, second from left, confer as beer is brewed in the UC Davis brewery.
UC Davis |

Sierra Nevada Brewing owners give $2M to UC Davis brewing program

Gift establishes endowment for a full-time staff brewing position.
Moderator Evan Kleiman, Robert Goldberg, Russ Parsons and Edward Parson talk about the controversy over genetic modifications of our food. Goldberg and Parson are UCLA professors.
UCLA |

UCLA professors defend GMOs

No known detrimental impacts have been found in genetically modified food.
UC Riverside death protein
UC Riverside |

Study provides new focus for developing drugs to fight cancer

An understudied protein could help combat treatment resistance in cancer cells.
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UC Berkeley |

How the brain extracts meaning from noise

Neuroscientists observe the brain tune in and tune out in real time.
UC Davis house drought
UC Davis |

A house designed for drought

UC Davis students tackle the water crisis in their entry for the Department of Energy’s 2017 Solar Decathlon.
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UC Santa Cruz |

A year of risks and rewards

Scientific advancements, student achievements and a new 'collision space' cap off a remarkable 2016.
Hasan Minhaj UC Davis
UC Davis |

Comedian's homecoming

Alum Hasan Minhaj tackles weighty national and local issues in his one-man show.
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UCSF |

UCSF's most popular science stories of 2016

Advances in cancer, drug, neuroscience and Zika research define an eventful year.