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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 Davis colon cancer
UC Davis |

14 new startups based on technologies developed at UC Davis

Learn about the record-tying number of ventures launched from UC Davis this fiscal year.
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California HIV/AIDS Research Program and APLA Health |

Study finds barriers to accessing HIV prevention pill

Significant disparities found in PrEP awareness, use among young gay and bisexual men in California.
UC Santa Cruz Julie Snyder
UC Santa Cruz |

Julie Snyder: Serially great journalism

The UC Santa Cruz alumna talks her hit podcast 'Serial' and getting her start on college radio.
Chloe Anderson UC Santa Cruz
UC Newsroom |

New UC Santa Cruz student challenges assumptions about transgender athletes

Chloe Psyche Anderson is ready to experience what the university and Division III volleyball have to offer.
Johnese Spisso has devoted her career to building world-class health care organizations. Now she brings her talent and abundant energy to help guide UCLA Health toward greater achievement.
UCLA |

UCLA Hospital System CEO on raising the bar

Q&A with Johnese Spisso.
A group of UC Davis students is breeding a “jalapeño popper,” a cross between a bell pepper and a jalapeño pepper. Two members of the team, Randi Jimenez and Wengyuan Xiao, examine their crop at the Student Farm.
UC Davis |

Students breeding a better organic popper pepper

UC Davis student-run project has become a model for other programs.
Ford Fusion UC Riverside
UC Riverside |

The perfect car, according to science

A new study shows how the aesthetic design of U.S. auto models affects consumer preferences.
UC Riverside bacteria wild bees
UC Riverside |

Flowers critical link to bacteria transmission in wild bees

Research shows for the first time that multiple flower and wild bee species share several of the same types of bacteria.
Associate professor William Ristenpart talks with Sabrina Perell, community regional development major, and Kyle Phan, an undeclared major, about the taste of their brew during a UC Davis “Design of Coffee” class in 2015. UC Davis is now establishing a Co
UC Davis |

Peet's Coffee pledges $250,000 to advance coffee research

Gift will fund Peet's Coffee Pilot Roastery in first-of-its-kind Coffee Center at UC Davis.
Italy earthquakes UCLA
UCLA |

UCLA civil engineer to lead Italy earthquake research team

New group to investigate geological aspects of the devastating August tremblor sequence.
UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley |

White racism linked to fatal heart disease for blacks and whites

Living in unabashedly racist communities can shorten lives, new study finds.
UC Davis dogs cancer
UC Davis |

Cancer therapies for dogs may speed up treatments for humans

Man's best friend leads the way in fighting diseases we have in common.