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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 Riverside |

Dark matter satellites trigger massive starbursts

UC Riverside professor explains star formation observed in dwarf galaxies.
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UC Food Observer |

Q&A with Michael Roberts

The Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law is addressing key gaps, its founding executive director says.
UCLA diabetes
UCLA |

Majority of California adults have prediabetes or diabetes

A new analysis from UCLA finds 55 percent of Californians over 18 have or are at risk of developing diabetes.
Kirsten Goijvaerts, left, and Nienke Kramer, both seniors from Wageningen University, have studied at UC Davis during winter quarter.
UC Davis |

UC Davis and Europe's leading agricultural university join forces on food

UC Davis and Wageningen University sign food research and academic exchange pact; UC President Janet Napolitano to sign a separate UC-wide agreement on student exchanges with the Netherlands delegation.
UC Santa Cruz student David Robles has worked at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems and is a UC Global Food Initiative student fellow.
UC Newsroom |

Learning from the ground up

From well-established farms to a crop of new gardens, courses and programs, UC offers experiential learning opportunities to students at all levels.
UCLA Jackie Robinson monument
UCLA |

Jackie Robinson's number 42 lives on at UCLA

Campus dedicates a monument to the groundbreaking alum, whose number has been retired in all sports.
UC Santa Barbara Shinto
UC Santa Barbara |

Shinto tradition to reach a new set of readers

UC Santa Barbara scholar creates the world's first book series outside of Japan on the Shinto tradition.
UC Irvine antipoverty
UC Irvine |

UC Irvine launches institute on anti-poverty effectiveness

Studies will explore long-term success of policies promoting economic self-sufficiency.
Students taking a new course on food justice at UCLA learn about the topic from the ground up. The course is part of a new food studies minor, one of a growing number of interdisciplinary programs that have become popular to take.
UCLA |

Interdisciplinary minors energize learning and enhance job prospects

The list of such minors as food studies is growing in popularity at UCLA.
UC San Diego Black Academic Excellence Initiative
UC San Diego |

UC San Diego launches Black Academic Excellence Initiative

Chancellor dedicates additional scholarship funds and support to encourage more collegebound students to enroll.
UC Santa Barbara empathy study
UC Santa Barbara |

Caring, not just understanding, makes for a responsive partner

Pyschologists at UC Santa Barbara find that cognitive empathy alone is not enough when it comes to providing support in relationships.
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UC Berkeley |

Scientists tap the smarts of mice, capture problem-solving in action

UC Berkeley researchers provide the first live images of how learning rewires the brain.