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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 Santa Cruz pediatric cancer
UC Santa Cruz Magazine |

Building a ladder to a cure

UC Santa Cruz researchers open a new front in the treatment of pediatric cancer.
UCSF dementia depression
UC San Francisco |

Study suggests ‘emotional health’ implicated in dementia

Risk may be almost doubled by escalating depression in the elderly, according to UC San Francisco research.
Tumbleweed UC Riverside
UC Riverside |

New tumbleweed species rapidly expanding range

UC Riverside researchers find the weed may have tumbled too far.
From left, farmers Pak Ry and Brap Yart carry a bin of sponge gourd and banana leaves into a CoolBot-equipped cold room in Cambodia, to keep the produce fresh before sale.
UC Davis/UC ANR |

How one farmer's invention is reducing postharvest losses around the world

UC helps test CoolBot.
eSports UC Irvine
UC Irvine |

UC Irvine launches first-of-its-kind eSports initiative

Campus is a destination for gaming talent with teams, arenas, and scholarships.
Killer whale UC Davis
UC Davis |

Wild killer whales to get personal health records

UC Davis scientists are driving an effort to provide improved, possibly hands-off, checkups.
Berkeley Lab Ee-Been Goh
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |

From near-dropout to doctorate, scientist now a leader in biofuels

Berkeley Lab biochemist thrives on re-engineering bacteria and mentoring students.
UC Santa Barbara |

Reforms could restore wild fisheries to health in just a decade

A UC Santa Barbara professor shows how quickly ocean sustainability can be achieved.
Forbes Best Value UC system
UC Newsroom |

UC campuses stand out among Forbes’ ‘best value’ colleges

Students win big on education quality and price, according to magazine's ranking of 300 schools.
UCLA engineer flight study
UCLA |

UCLA engineer studies avian flight

This government-funded research will help design unmanned aircraft with shapeshifting wings.
UC Office of the President |

UC report strongly disputes assertions in state audit, demonstrates how it puts California students first

The University of California released "Straight Talk on Hot-Button Issues: UC Admissions, Finances, and Transparency," a new report.
Kent Bradford, left, and Alfred Huo, seen here with a flowering lettuce plant, found that lettuce could be prevented from flowering by increasing the expression of a specific microRNA in the plants. The high levels of this microRNA prevent the plant from
UC Davis |

Gene blocking lettuce germination also regulates flowering time

Discovery could be crucial for adapting to climate change.