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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 Santa Cruz |

The importance of being tilted

New findings show how a tilt of the head facilitates social interaction, with potential benefits for people with autism.
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UC Berkeley |

Iceboxes and jail: Helping immigrant mothers and children held at the border

A week with UC Berkeley lawyer Paula Raffaelli, who volunteered to help detainees navigate the legal system.
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UCSF |

Artificial intelligence can detect Alzheimer’s disease in brain scans 6 years before a diagnosis

A machine-learning algorithm diagnosed early-stage Alzheimer’s disease using a common PET scan.
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UC San Diego |

Graduate student’s steerable brain device wins big at inventors competition

Gopesh Tilvawala is developing a first-of-its-kind catheter to navigate tiny arteries in the brain.
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UC Davis |

Bulldogs’ screw tails linked to human genetic disease

Scientists find the genetic basis for these dogs’ appearance, and link it to a rare inherited syndrome in humans.
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UC Santa Barbara |

Coming to America

Historical context helps explain the urgency of present-day Central American migrations.
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UC Irvine |

UC Irvine cited as a community college pipeline leader

A new report on the national goal of enrolling 50,000 additional low- and moderate-income students by 2025.
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UCSF |

The mystery of the super-ager

Researchers are trying to figure out the secret to some elderly people's success.
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UC Newsroom |

How to rethink your New Year's resolutions (according to science)

The question-behavior effect, a cognitive quirk, can set your new actions up for success.
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UC Santa Barbara |

The international statistic of the year

Roland Geyer's much lauded finding is a sobering one: 91 percent of the world's plastic waste has never been recycled.
Lisa Materson and Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, associate professors of history, read from their new book
UC Davis |

The female historians unearthing women's stories

A new Oxford handbook restores women to their rightful place on the world's stage.
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UC Newsroom |

UC’s most buzzworthy research of 2018

A looming beer shortage, the gender paradox and consumer products dominated the conversation this year.