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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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Cytomegalovirus UCSF
UCSF |

Common virus tied to diabetes, heart disease in women under 50

Findings reversed in those with extreme obesity, study shows.
UC Santa Cruz beetle
UC Santa Cruz |

Music professor receives patent to help fight bark beetles ravaging Western forests

A new kind of death metal.
UC San Diego Trappist
UC San Diego |

UC San Diego astrophysicists contribute to major planet discovery

Discovery of seven new planets that could contain life is a breakthrough in space.
UCLA |

Oroville Dam crisis could be sign of things to come

California's system of dams and reservoirs isn't ready for climate change, UCLA professor warns.
UC fruit Central Valley
UC Merced |

Despite farms, some in Central Valley struggle to find fresh food

UC Merced is spearheading a collaboration to prevent chronic disease in the community.
UC San Diego looking glass
UC San Diego |

Through the looking glass

New business launched by alum helps the visually impaired navigate the world.
UC Santa Barbara shark counting
UC Santa Barbara |

Counting sharks on Palmyra

Scientists visit a pristine island to find out what a healthy population looks like.
Grad Slam 2017
UC Newsroom |

Grad students compete to keep it simple

Grad Slam builds students' communication skills while offering the public a window into groundbreaking research.
8 with UC ties nominated for Academy Awards
UCLA |

Oscar contenders are more diverse. But...

Hollywood needs to address ongoing equity issues, annual report finds.
UC Riverside researchers, from left, Philippe Rolshausen, David Jassby, Haizhou Liu, Caroline Roper, Georgios Vidalakis, and James Borneman received a $5.1 million grant to fight a disease killing citrus trees.
UC Riverside |

Fighting a citrus killer

Research will focus on attacking disease that is destroying Florida’s citrus industry and threatens California.
Under the supervision of Allison Korn, UCLA law students will provide legal services as part of UCLA's new Food Law and Policy Clinic.
UCLA |

Safe and sustainable: UCLA launches Food Law and Policy Clinic

First of its kind in California.
Katherine Mackey Sloan
UC Newsroom |

UC faculty win 2017 Sloan Research Fellowships

‘Rising stars’ from eight campuses receive Sloan Foundation awards.