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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 Student Regent Sadia Saiffudin of UC Berkeley, center, flanked by Vanessa Terán, left, of Mixteco/Indígena Community Organizing Project, and Melissa Fontaine, right, of Foodbank of Santa Barbara County, were featured in a panel about food justice.
UC Newsroom |

Wanted: Students for the UC Board of Regents

If you dream of helping shape one of the best university systems in the world, now’s your chance.
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UC Newsroom |

Online toolkit offers resources to improve school nutrition

UC Global Food Initiative launches Good Food for Local Schools website.
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UC Riverside |

A Wolverine-inspired material

A self-healing, transparent and stretchable material can power artificial muscles.
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UC Santa Cruz |

Engineers work with Samsung on promising new memory technology

Innovations in 'spintronics' may lead to the emergence of a universal memory technology to replace all others.
UC Davis butterfly contest
UC Davis |

Butterfly for science, beer for bragging

Professor Art Shapiro's infamous contest — which he's only lost four times — enters its 46th year.
UCSF sneakers New Year's resolutions
UCSF |

Scientific reasons for keeping your New Year’s resolutions

Added motivation from leading scientists to help you stick to your goals.
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UC Merced via The Conversation |

The challenge facing libraries in an era of fake news

In today's unpredictable information environment, how might academic librarians rethink their role?
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UC Berkeley |

Global warming hiatus disproved — again

Study confirms steady warming of oceans for past 45 years.
Wine writer Jancis Robinson has donated her personal papers to the UC Davis Library.
UC Davis |

Wine writer Jancis Robinson donates personal papers to UC Davis

Her papers join UC Davis Library's collections of other prominent wine writers, top wine researchers and scientists, and wine industry leaders.
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UCLA |

Mathematicians bring ocean to life for Disney’s ‘Moana’

Professor and alum make movie magic.
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UC Newsroom |

Regents to consider modest tuition increase for improved student support

Revenue to be used for financial aid, student services and improving the student-faculty ratio.
Preschoolers from the Orfalea Family Children’s Center at UCSB enter the campus Greenhouse & Garden Project for a lesson in gardening.
UC Santa Barbara |

'Inside, outside and beyond'

UC Santa Barbara collaboration seeds sustainability in preschoolers.