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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 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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UC Riverside |

Lawn mower emission reduction device wins national award

Several generations of engineering teams have worked on the NOx-Out device to cut air pollution.
Daniel Ybarra and family
UCLA |

Tillman scholarship puts student veteran on a path to succeed in medicine

Fourth-year med student is also pursuing master's in public health, plans to work as a doctor with the Veterans Health Administration.
Barbara Endemaño Walker
UC Santa Barbara |

Promoting team science

NSF grant puts UC Santa Barbara at the helm of interdisciplinary research effort to promote gender equity in the STEM workforce.
UC Merced |

Fighting breast cancer, message by message

UC Merced’s Susana Ramirez will lead a five-year project to create messages to help bicultural Latinas improve their eating habits and reduce their risk of breast cancer.
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UC Merced |

Campus economic impact in San Joaquin Valley grows to $1.27 billion

UC Merced has proven to be an engine for economic growth in the region since its 2005 opening.
Sama Ahmed, UCSF
UC Office of the President via The Conversation |

Why more scientists are needed in the public square

The public dialogue about science is perhaps the most vital and most fraught national conversation not taking place in our country, and the ramifications are profound.
Britta Hansen, left, and Elise Brockett plant okra and other vegetables at the UC Davis Horticulture Innovation Lab Demonstration Center, in advance of its Oct. 16 grand opening.
UC Davis |

From 'Healthy Soils' talk to a garden's grand opening

UC Davis hosts a variety of events in October to celebrate World Food Day and National Food Day.
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UCLA |

UCLA puts issue of food waste on front burner

Campus community invited to attend free evening program on Oct. 21 as part of Food Day 2015.
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UC Riverside |

Cleaning water one stroke at a time

Engineering team wins an international design competition for creating a swimsuit that cleans water as people swim.
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UC Riverside |

‘Window to the brain’ research ramps up

Partnership with three Mexican universities receives nearly $5 million to further study method that could make it easier to treat brain conditions.
Alice Yu
UC San Diego |

A pediatric cancer drug three decades in the making

Experimental immunotherapy treatment first successfully used in the 1990s is finally available for commercial use.
A new study finds that Berkeley’s soda tax led to higher retail prices of sugary drinks sold in the city.
UC Berkeley |

Berkeley's soda tax boosts retail prices of sugary drinks, study confirms

UC Berkeley findings come nearly a year after Berkeley voters approved an excise tax of one cent per ounce on sugary drinks.