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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 Irvine |

California's first ‘active learning’ building opens at UC Irvine

The rules of college are changing: Students may now be required to talk to each other, check their cellphones and trade notes. 
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UC Berkeley |

Regret is a gambler’s curse, scientists say

New science can record rapid human brain activity — including what goes on after we wager.
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UC Newsroom |

What the battle over scooters gets wrong

The problem isn't what's on our streets. It's the streets themselves.
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UC Newsroom |

More than skin deep: How environment, diet and social experiences affect health

UC scientists dive into the ambient factors contributing to health crises like obesity and Type 2 diabetes.
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UCLA |

UCLA students launch project that’s out of this world

More than 250 UCLA undergrads have designed and built a small satellite that will study weather in space.
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UC Davis |

Kindness: An unsung climate change tool

The solutions to climate change are not just technological — kindness can help any community weather its harshest impacts.
UC Berkeley |

What kind of person donates a kidney to a stranger?

‘All you have to do is lay on the couch for a couple weeks,’ remarks life-saving UC staffer Katherine Welsh.
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UC San Diego |

Time-restricted eating can overcome the bad effects of faulty genes and unhealthy diet

They say ‘you are what you eat.’ But a new study suggests that when you eat may be just as important.
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UC San Francisco |

A new spinal cord injury treatment is getting patients back on their feet

Patients are recovering from injuries that were once believed to be irreversible.
UC Newsroom |

UC campuses rise to the top in new US News & World Report rankings

Each undergrad campus is among the top 75 public universities in the nation, with five in the top 10. 
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UCLA |

New antibiotics that work

8,000 new combinations are surprisingly effective against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
UC Berkeley |

Science of happiness moves to the workplace

Surveys find more than half of American job seekers cite the need for more meaningful work, engagement and recognition.