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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 Berkeley |

CRISPR reduces autism symptoms in mice

Exaggerated repetitive behavior characteristic of autism was lessened after a receptor was edited.
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UC Santa Cruz |

How to find truth in today’s partisan world

The Ethics Bowl teaches you not to win or lose a debate, but something more important: how to think.
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UC Newsroom |

UC keeps Los Alamos National Laboratory on cutting edge of science and research

The university is proud to continue its stewardship of one of the world's premier scientific institutions.
sun dog UCSF
UCSF |

Staying safe in the sun – a dermatologist helps separate facts from hype

Don't get burned by bad advice this summer.
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UCLA |

Family travels 7,500 miles to save son’s life with treatment developed at UCLA

Stem cell gene therapy cures baby with life-threatening immune disorder.
UC Davis |

Awards pour in for the ‘pope of foam’

Brewing legend Charlie Bamforth has been honored this year with three prestigious global awards in his field.
UC Santa Barbara |

Ways to rally UC campuses for carbon neutrality

New report presents strategies for increasing campus engagement in the Carbon Neutrality Initiative
Nakamura portrait with LEDs
UC Santa Barbara |

Great immigrant, great American

UC naturalized citizen scholars, including Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura, will be recognized for their contributions on July 4.
Light bulbs being tested at the California Lighting Technology Center at UC Davis
UC Newsroom |

UC launches Million Light Bulb Challenge community buy program

Students, staff, faculty and alumni can purchase high-quality, energy-efficient light bulbs at a special price.
UC Berkeley study 100 birthday candle old woman
UC Berkeley |

Still alive at 105

New research challenges the notion that the human lifespan has a final cutoff point.
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UC Newsroom |

UC faculty named 2018 Pew biomedical scholars and fellows

Eleven early-career scholars from six UC campuses are recognized for their enormous potential.
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UCLA |

Curing a deadly childhood disease, sharing her love of science, and a sleek ’68 Corvette drive this biochemist

Mashable captures a day in the life of Duchenne muscular dystrophy researcher.