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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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Genome sequencing reveals how carrots have become good at accumulating carotenoids, the pigment compounds that give them their characteristic colors and nutritional richness.
UC Davis |

Carrot genome paints colorful picture of domestication

Study reveals how the carrot has been touched by breeding practices as well as influenced by environmental change.
UC President Janet Napolitano delivers the Global Food Summit's keynote address at the UC Irvine Beckman Center.
UC Irvine |

Five takeaways from UC's Global Food Summit

Event is first opportunity for UC Blum Federation to come together since it was formally announced in February.
UC Riverside Global Food Security Week will take place May 9-15.
UC Riverside |

UC Riverside to host Global Food Security Week with slate of events

Scheduled activities include informative lectures and discussions, a documentary screening, a farm tour, a dance party and more.
UC San Diego Maker's Row
UC San Diego |

Democratizing manufacturing, thanks to UC San Diego alumna

Maker's Row helps DIY artists realize their visions in U.S. factories.
Bolt threads UC
UC Newsroom |

10 game-changing grad student startups

Young enterprises disrupt everything from health care to agriculture.
Mussels
UC Santa Cruz |

Shellfish response to ocean acidification depends on other stressors

Vulnerability of mussels to harmful effects from acidic seawater varies among different West Coast locations, study finds.
UC Riverside mosquitoes
UC Newsroom |

UC startup lets you smell good to friends, gross to mosquitoes

Bloodsucking insects have met their match thanks to new research relying on FDA-approved compounds.
UC Newsroom |

A baby blanket that helps preemies breathe

A UC Merced startup has a new idea for stopping infections among these vulnerable patients.
A video game that teaches you how to code
UC Newsroom |

Turning kids into computer wizards

Is it possible to make computer class as fun as recess? A UC San Diego startup thinks so.
UC Global Food Initiative fellow Holly Mayton of UC Riverside spreads compost around a fruit tree during a field trip to Full Belly Farm in the Capay Valley.
UC Riverside |

UC Riverside graduate student to attend competitive program on food security

Forty students selected each year for U.S. Borlaug Summer Institute on Global Food Security.
Gregory Barton and Meghan Koch identified antibodies in mouse milk.
UC Berkeley |

Breastfeeding is good for yet another reason, researchers discover

Breast milk antibodies interact with the just-forming immune system of a newborn to shape lifelong responses.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |

We are not alone - there are germs in space, too

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is studying bacteria aboard the International Space Station.