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UC Newsroom |

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 Newsroom |

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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UCR Magazine |

Seven myths about e-cigarettes busted

Cell biologist Prue Talbot clears the air regarding the latest take on an old vice.
UC Berkeley |

Student team aims for app to help diabetes patients dining out

UC Berkeley team heading to round 2 of the Diabetes Design Challenge.
The UC Berkeley Food Pantry will benefit from the campus’s new relationship with Bank of the West.
UC Berkeley |

Agreement with Bank of the West to benefit student programs

The agreement will help support programs like Bears for Financial Success and the UC Berkeley Food Pantry.
UC Riverside |

Riverside's climate heroes

Professor and four students will work to engage the campus on climate change related issues in the coming year.
water polo
UC Newsroom |

Making a splash: first look at concussions in water polo

UC Irvine physiologist James Hicks, whose three sons played water polo, is leading the first probe of concussions in water polo.
Agriculture, including vegetables, grain and fruit crops, is the largest sector of Pakistan's economy.
UC Davis |

UC Davis and Pakistan launch $17M food and agricultural partnership

Project will build on UC Davis' efforts in Pakistan agriculture, with a renewed emphasis on an exchange of faculty and graduate students.
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UC Santa Barbara |

The coldest summer

A team of researchers in Antarctica is studying an ancient subduction zone to better understand the continent’s geologic evolution.
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UCLA |

The Grand Challenge of combating depression

Genetic study of 100,000 people will be the largest ever on a single disorder.
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California Magazine |

So long, passwords: What will it take for us to trust biometrics?

Fingerprints, voice and facial recognition aren't foolproof. For biometrics to truly dislodge passwords, a different approach is necessary to make them more secure.
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UCLA Blueprint |

Unequal schools: the perpetuation of poverty

A researcher's own experience with learning disabilities led to devoting his research and writing to identifying inequalities in education and community-organizing for school reform.
Irish President Michael Higgins meets Berkeley students and announces seed funding for an Irish studies program.
UC Berkeley |

Irish president presses his case for ending world hunger

Helps launch Irish studies program at UC Berkeley.
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UC San Francisco |

Cutting sugar from kids' diets improves health in just days

Reducing consumption of added sugar has the power to reverse a cluster of chronic metabolic diseases, such as high cholesterol and blood pressure, in children in as little as 10 days.