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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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Female cancer patient
UC Davis |

Second cancers deadlier in young patients

Findings may account for relatively poor outcomes.
UC Irvine rocket
UC Irvine |

The first university to launch a rocket into space

UC Irvine aims to reach the stars with a $1M gift.
UC San Diego Jade pendant
UC San Diego |

A pendant fit for a king

One of the largest Mayan jades found to date, containing a historical text, is discovered.
UC Riverside |

Study to explore HIV and aging

UC Riverside's Brandon Brown will lead two-year project funded by Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
Kim and Jack Johnson helped to launch UC Santa Barbara's Edible Campus Program in 2015 with a tree-planting event at Storke Tower.
UC Santa Barbara |

Taking root

Alumni Kim and Jack Johnson team with UC Santa Barbara's Edible Campus Program on a teaching farm.
Tomatoes dried in the chimney solar dryer, during an experiment led by Michael Reid and Jim Thompson at the Horticulture Innovation Lab Demonstration Center at UC Davis.
UC Davis |

Low-cost tool helps improve global nutrition, boost farmers' income

UC Davis researchers' invention measures food dryness to help prevent mold, a pervasive problem in developing countries.  
UCLA SCOTUS clinic
UCLA |

UCLA Law Clinic wins US Supreme Court case

Case may not have made it to SCOTUS if not for the clinic, says professor who makes debut in front of the Court.
UC Davis pigeon study
UC Davis |

Pigeon study takes on sexism in science

New study shows the folly of assuming male and female animals are genetically the same.
Temecula-based Agrobiomics is commercializing a sealant developed by UC Riverside’s Philippe Rolshausen. The sealant protects grapevines from fungal damage that is shown on the right side of this vine.
UC Riverside |

Turning ideas into enterprise

UC Riverside supports innovation by bringing new technologies from the lab to the marketplace.
Dr. Kodi Azari, director of the UCLA Hand Transplant program, gets a good grip on Jonathan Koch's transplanted hand. Azari led the surgical teams that amputated Koch's hand and later transplanted a donor hand.
UCLA |

A true Hollywood story: Executive makes dramatic recovery from hand transplant

UCLA's Dr. Kodi Azari uses novel approach to prepare man for complex surgery.
alcohol abuse UCSF
UCSF |

The hormone oxytocin is being tested for treatment of PTSD and alcohol abuse

Military personnel, who suffer these afflictions at a greater rate, may finally get some relief.
undergraduate research day UC
UC Newsroom |

What sets a UC education apart? Opportunities to change the world through research

Meet our undergraduate research ambassadors.