Three women posing with giant checks

Featured Story

UC Newsroom |

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.

A student researcher smiles in a lab coat around blue tubing

Featured Story

UC Newsroom |

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.

List Grid
Community
Campuses & Locations
Categories
UC Davis Health Vice Chancellor and Dean Julie Freischlag
UC Davis |

UC Davis medical school dean to lead Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center

Julie Freischlag will leave UC Davis at end of April.
UC breastfeeding study
UC Newsroom |

Breastfeeding study aims to break barriers

Checking a box when filing your taxes can help fund research like this innovative breastfeeding study.
UC Irvine glaciers
UC Irvine |

Canadian glaciers now major contributor to sea level change

Nine times more ice is melting annually due to warmer temperatures, study shows.
UC Santa Cruz diversity
UC Santa Cruz |

Diversity, inclusivity key to a growing economy

America may be polarized but untapped economic opportunity awaits in inclusion, research finds.
UC Berkeley 3-D printing
UC Berkeley |

As 3-D printing grows, so does need to reclaim plastic waste

Two UC Berkeley undergrads work out first-of-its-kind recycling infrastructure on campus.
e-cigarettes UCLA cardiac risk
UCLA |

New evidence that e-cigarettes may harm your heart

Cardiac risk factors reported in smokers found in e-cig users.
UC love on the brain
UC Newsroom |

This is your brain on love

On Valentine's Day, we asked the experts how biology and psychology affect love, relationships and sex.
Breast cancer scalp cooling
UCSF |

Scalp cooling can help some breast cancer patients retain hair

New study identifies way for majority of patients to lessen one of cancer's most devastating hallmarks.
Exercise vision UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Barbara |

Can you see better when you exercise?

A novel experiment investigates whether human vision is more sensitive during physical activity.
UC Riverside Ventura fault
UC Riverside |

Ventura fault could cause stronger shaking, new research finds

The fault has a staircase-like structure, which would result in more damage during an earthquake.
Yasmeen Kahn, a senior custodial supervisor at UC Davis Student Housing, donated her right kidney to her husband, Mohammed Faiyaz.
UC Davis |

A national leader in transplants

UC Davis leads nation in kidney transplants; UCLA and UCSF top nation in total organ transplants last year.
UC Irvine signal generator
UC Irvine |

New 'super-smart' processing technology developed

Millimeter-wave signal generator could revolutionize scanning, spectroscopy and wireless communication.