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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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UCLA Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Medical Building
UCLA |

$30M gift to UCLA Health will accelerate research, education and patient care

Donation supports Division of Digestive Diseases, top medical school initiatives.
UC Riverside navigation drone
UC Riverside |

No GPS, no problem: Next-generation navigation

New system supports fully autonomous vehicle development by relying on existing cellular signals.
UC Irvine foster care
UC Irvine |

Study shows foster care is bad for your health

First-of-its-kind survey finds greater mental and physical ailments among children who have been in the system.
Mice brain tumor UC San Diego
UC San Diego |

Scientists find way to reduce brain tumors — block cholesterol

Preventing brain cells from importing cholesterol shows promise against hard-to-treat cancer.
UC Berkeley voting
UC Berkeley |

What really motivates people to vote?

Hint: It's not policy.
UC Davis plant geneticist Dario Cantu used a new sequencing technology and computer algorithm to produce a high-quality draft genome sequence of the cabernet sauvignon wine grape.
UC Davis |

Breakthrough paves way for climate-tolerant wine grape varieties

Success of new genome assembly also shown on other plants.
UC San Francisco's Joseph DeRisi is among 10 new UC members elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
UC Newsroom |

10 UC members elected to National Academy of Medicine

The selection is among the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
UC Merced break ground
UC Merced |

UC Merced kicks off historic $1.3B expansion

New project to infuse $1.9 billion into the local economy and double campus size.
UC San Diego Zero Carbon
UC San Diego |

Achieving a zero carbon future

New initiative is determined to radically reinvent the electric power grid.
Low-income communities of color are often deprived of opportunities to sustain healthy eating and active living.
UC Riverside |

Targeting the root cause of childhood obesity

Low-income communities of color grow healthier through community organizing.
A Japanese beetle munches a leaf.
UC Davis |

Diversity as natural pesticide

Why insect pests love monocultures, and how plant diversity could change that.
UC Irvine Mars hero
UC Irvine |

Travel to Mars, risk dementia

Study raises questions about long-term brain health after extended spaceflights.