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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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Napolitano talk UCLA
UCLA |

UC President Napolitano talks public service with UCLA Law students

'If not you, then who?' UC head asks, encouraging students to pursue work benefitting the public good.
Maria UC Davis
UC Davis |

A safe harbor for Puerto Rican scholars

175 faculty and others to help University of Puerto Rico scholars continue research while the island recovers.
Achieve UC UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz |

Chancellor to tell students UC education is attainable, affordable

The campus kicks off a series of visits to show local students it's possible to achieve UC — if only they apply.
HIV kick kill UCLA
UCLA |

Researchers create molecule that could ‘kick and kill’ HIV

A synthetic particle can awaken dormant virus cells and knock them out in lab animals — a significant advance.
UC Davis cleaner disinfectant
UC Davis |

Why a little dirt is good for us

Disinfectants can inhibit cellular energy production and even lead to an increased risk of Parkinson's disease.
UC San Diego flip flops
UC San Diego |

Could these flip-flops save the earth?

These $3, algae-based renewable sandals could become the planet's preferred shoe.
UC Riverside avocados
UC Riverside |

The next generation of avocados

As the fruit gains popularity worldwide, a new program plans to make it ever better.
UC Berkeley Hurricane generosity
UC Berkeley |

How generosity in disasters flows in both directions

Sharing what we have activates pleasure circuits in the brain, says the Greater Good Science Center.
UC Riverside fear
UC Riverside |

Erasing your fears?

Researchers have developed a method to selectively erase fear memories in the brain.
UC Berkeley Barry Barish
UC Berkeley |

UC Berkeley alum Barry Barish wins 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics

His work on the discovery of gravitational waves helped prove Einstein's general theory of relativity right.
Neurons worms
UCSF |

The most detailed look yet at an animal's brain

The C. elegans worm may have only 302 neurons, but for the first time, scientists can see them all one by one.
food podcast UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley |

New podcast explores people, places behind the food we eat

The Berkeley Food Institute explores the network of people and places behind what we eat in a new series.