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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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Standing inside the food pantry at UCI's Student Outreach & Retention Center are (from left) ASUCI food security Co-commissioner Erica Wong, Orange County Food Bank Director Mark Lowry, SOAR Director Graciela Fernandez and ASUCI food security Co-commissio
UC Irvine |

Banking on food

Free pantry staves off hunger among needy UC Irvine students.
UC Newsroom |

The research that's changing U.S. food policy

UC research is helping uncover answers to the nation’s obesity epidemic and other thorny food-related issues.
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UC San Francisco |

Artificial kidney research gets a boost

Development of a surgically implantable, artificial kidney — spearheaded by researchers at UCSF and Vanderbilt — receives a $6 million federal grant.
UC San Francisco |

Does healthier food help low-income people control their diabetes?

Researchers find better management of diabetes through nutrition food and education supplied by food pantries.
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UCLA |

West Nile virus killing millions more birds than previously thought

The findings are particularly alarming for birds with smaller populations, which can’t rebound like a large population can.
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UC Berkeley |

Scientists map source of Northwest’s next big quake

Ocean-bottom seismometers help explain the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate that causes megathrust earthquakes.
Clinton Terrell
UC Berkeley |

Touched by Shakespeare in solitary confinement

The classics carried one young man from incarceration to academia.
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UC Berkeley |

UC campuses to co-lead regional data science ‘brain trust’

NSF establishes four regional innovation hubs — including one led by UC Berkeley, UC San Diego and the University of Washington — to accelerate advances in data science.
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UC Santa Cruz |

Bat disease fungus widespread in northeast China

Discovery greatly expands the known distribution of the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome, which has decimated bat populations in North America.
NOAA Fisheries researcher on Scripps boat
UC San Diego |

California’s fish populations are declining

Two independent data sets show changing ocean conditions adversely impact fish off California.
Gretchen Hofmann, UCSB
UC Newsroom |

UC announces first Faculty Climate Action Champions

Select instructors at each campus will work with students on projects aimed at building community engagement and awareness.
UC Merced
UC Merced |

National rankings point to growing recognition for young campus

UC's newest campus is drawing accolades for diversity, sustainability and preparing students for the workforce.