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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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UC Merced |

UC president’s whirlwind Merced visit covers many bases

Third campus visit touches on affordability, sustainability and outreach to local high-schoolers.
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UC San Francisco |

$9.75M will launch platform to accelerate mobile health research

Success of the Health eHeart Study was the impetus for the creation of the Health ePeople project. 
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UC Santa Barbara |

Mission impossible?

Humans just aren't cut out for tedious jobs like monitoring a computer screen — even if the consequences of failure are dire.
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UC San Francisco |

New research institute will explore brain’s extraordinary changeability

Initiative is part of $100M commitment to neuroscience by the Kavli Foundation.
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UC Newsroom |

UC campuses are top public colleges in World University Rankings

Times Higher Education includes eight UC campuses in its annual list of top universities.
Laura Esserman, UC San Francisco
UC Newsroom |

Five things women should know about breast cancer

UC San Francisco's Dr. Laura Esserman, who leads the Athena Breast Health Network — a collaboration of the five UC medical centers — offers insights into breast cancer.
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UC Santa Cruz |

Picture this: an app for blind photographers

Grad student designed audio tool to recognize and describe photos for the visually impaired.
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UC Riverside |

3-D printing could help save avocado and landscape trees

Technology has greatly accelerated research on an ambrosia beetle that is damaging trees in Southern California.
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UC Davis |

West Village marches toward zero net energy

Nation’s largest planned zero net energy community is 82 percent on the way to its goal.
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UC San Diego |

Uncovering the secrets of the adolescent brain

Big data study will explore the developing minds and brains of 10,000 children.
Juan Felipe Herrera
UCLA |

Juan Felipe Herrera is a voice for the people

U.S. poet laureate — a UCLA alumnus and UC Riverside professor emeritus — has been called an 'American original.'
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UCLA |

UCLA and VA launch program to enhance cancer care for veterans

UCLA-VA pilot project is nation’s first to offer veterans access to cutting-edge cancer clinical trials and state-of-the-art treatment facilities.