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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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Francis Ford Coppola UCLA
UCLA |

Francis Ford Coppola tests concept of live movie-making with UCLA students, faculty

Award-winning director and alum workshops an innovative filmic technique.
UC Berkeley air conditioning
UC Berkeley via The Conversation |

The global impact of air conditioning: Big and getting bigger

Rising incomes and temperatures increase the amount of cooling units — and greenhouse gases.
UC Irvine spit lab
UC Irvine |

Spit: The diagnostic tool of the future?

A UC Irvine alum brings home his research on the health- and behavior-revealing properties of saliva.
UC San Francisco |

California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine announces new funding opportunity

Up to six projects will demonstrate the potential of precision medicine to help patients.
Pacific Ocean at Scripps
UC San Diego |

Researchers can now monitor global warming due to human activity in real time

Scientists find the human impact on global warming can be distinguished from natural variability.
UC Berkeley |

The secret history of America on Medium

A professor challenges students to share alternative stories of life in America.
UC Davis |

Using urban pigeons to monitor lead pollution

New study shows bird toxin levels track with those of children in neighborhoods they share.
Sustainable agriculture educators will gather at the UC Santa Cruz farm and other campus locations for the seventh national conference of the Sustainable Agriculture Education Association July 29-31.
UC Santa Cruz |

Sustainable agriculture educators to gather at UC Santa Cruz

National conference focuses on practical aspects of teaching, learning about food systems, food justice.
An L.A. Laker, Metta World Peace joined UCLA students in Andy Rice's class on “Food: A Lens on Environment and Sustainability” in sampling roasted crickets during a lesson on entomophagy — bug eating.
UCLA |

Students try to overcome 'yuck' factor in Bug-Eating 101

Lakers' Metta World Peace joins in to try critter cuisine.
Farmers markets are one form of direct marketing.
UC Davis |

Direct-marketing farms have double the regional impact

Direct-marketing channels include farmers markets, roadside farm stands and community-supported agriculture programs.
hands inside a box, organizing food donations
UC Newsroom |

Young tech entrepreneurs take bite out of hunger

How can 50 million Americans not know where their next meal is coming from while 40 percent of food gets wasted?
Venn diagram portraying relationships, including infection, bacteremia, sepsis and the Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome.
UC Santa Barbara |

Teaming up to combat sepsis

UC Santa Barbara scientists collaborate with UC San Diego and others to conduct biomedical research on sepsis, thanks to $12.8M grant.