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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 among best public, commuter colleges in new rankings

UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC San Diego rated highly by College Factual and Money magazine.
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UC Riverside |

Making batteries with portobello mushrooms

Can mushrooms stop cell phone batteries from degrading over time? Engineering researchers at UC Riverside think so.
UC Berkeley |

Berkeley names Faculty Climate Action Champion

Whendee Silver's work in soils and carbon earned her recognition as part of UC's Carbon Neutrality Initiative.
Peidong Yang, 2015 MacArthur Fellow
UC Berkeley |

Chemist Peidong Yang receives MacArthur ‘genius award’

Synthetic leaf project aims to convert sunlight into transportation fuel through photosynthesis.
Former UC Davis postdoc Kim Mosse digs through soil for sampling at a vineyard. A UC Davis study says winery wastewater is a viable option to irrigate vineyards.
UC Davis |

Winery wastewater a viable water source for vineyards

UC Davis research provides first data to support California wine industry’s reuse of treated winery wastewater, and it describes recommended conditions for the practice, with key focus on salinity issues.
UC Merced |

New nanomaterials take research to Mexico, possibly into space

Researchers will build working models with Mexican counterparts and seek to pair with NASA to create space-friendly methods of health treatment.
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Lawrence Berkeley Lab |

Investigating link between thirdhand smoke and cancer

Berkeley Lab gets $1.3M to study health impacts of the stubborn, noxious residue left behind from smoked tobacco.
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UC Berkeley |

Sorghum is focus of $12.3M study of crop drought tolerance

Study will examine the role of epigenetics in allowing plants to survive in drought conditions.
Kern National Wildlife Refuge
UC Merced |

UC Merced researchers to tackle water crisis on multiple fronts

In the Central Valley, the Sierra and beyond, multicampus research initiative dives into state's drought issues.
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UC Santa Cruz |

Chip-based technology enables reliable direct detection of Ebola virus

System can be integrated into simple, portable instrument for use in field situations where rapid, accurate detection of the virus is needed to control outbreaks.
State Sen. Kevin de León
UC Riverside |

School of Public Policy will equip future leaders to solve 21st century challenges

Senate president pro tem exhorts students to be creative and passionate in seeking solutions.
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UC Davis |

A quarter of fish sold at markets contain man-made debris

A quarter of the fish sampled at markets in California and Indonesia has consumed plastic or man-made fiber material.