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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 Newsroom |

Faculty honored for contributions to UC initiatives

Leadership award winners are influencers in diversity, entrepreneurialsm, sustainability and other key issues.
UC Davis |

Pastured Poultry Farm to explore solutions for small chicken farms

UC Davis farm is home to 150 young laying chickens and a living lab where students and researchers hope to develop solutions benefiting pasture-based poultry farms, integrative crop-and-poultry farms, and backyard flocks.
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UC Santa Barbara |

An easy pill to swallow

An insulin pill in development shows early promise as a novel form of diabetes therapy.
California Magazine |

Innovative glasses let colorblind see what they’ve been missing

Lenses produced by UC Berkeley alums open up a vibrant new world of color.
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UC Davis |

Pigeons can distinguish cancerous breast tissue from normal

Study finds the birds are uncommonly good at distinguishing cancerous breast tissue from normal .
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UC Newsroom |

UC tests new ways of funding summer study

By making summer session more affordable, three UC campuses aim to help students take greater advantage of the academic off-season.
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UC Irvine |

Forecast: cloudy

Predicting intensity, impact of this winter’s El Niño is complicated by unprecedented confluence of weather anomalies.
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UC San Francisco |

Working up a sweat may protect against lethal prostate cancer

Vigorous exercise and other healthy lifestyle habits appear to have lifesaving benefits.
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UC Berkeley |

Celebrating World Toilet Day, reinventing sanitation

U.N. World Toilet Day, Nov. 19, highlights global sanitation shortfalls and their toll on human health and the environment.
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UC Davis |

More women CEOs but executive suite's still a male bastion

More women than ever before are running the state's largest public firms, but they still hold just one in eight of the senior executive and director positions in corporate California. 
Panelists at the discussion about GMO food: (from left) moderator Greg Jaffe; Josette Lewis; Norm Ellstrand; Belinda Martineau; Alan McHughen.
UC Riverside |

Genetic engineering needs better regulation, UC scientists say

Panel says genetic modification is just a tool that can be good or bad, depending on its application.
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UC San Francisco |

$177M gift will found Global Brain Health Institute to fight dementia

Atlantic Philanthropies funds UCSF and Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, to stem the precipitous rise in dementia by training and connecting a new generation of leaders worldwide.