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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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Rice
UC Riverside |

Secret unlocked to rice seed survival when underwater

UC Riverside geneticists are members of international research team that identified AG1, a gene that controls sugar availability.
Wine
UC Davis |

Premium-minded consumers split wine market, wine execs say

Survey of wine executives to be reported Sept. 22; wine professionals also surveyed.
UC Berkeley |

What the Inuit can tell us about omega-3 fats and paleo diets

The Inuit and their Siberian ancestors have special genetic mutations that help them partly counteract the effects of a diet high in marine mammal fat — and most of us don't. 
students and instructor
UC Newsroom |

New York Times calls UC an ‘upward-mobility machine’

Six campuses in top seven spots of College Access Index, which ranks economic diversity.
Michael O'Gorman (left) and Matthew Raiford at Farm to Fork.
UC Santa Cruz |

Annual Farm to Fork event honors past and future farmers

UC Santa Cruz event has supported more than 150 ecological horticulture apprentices through scholarships and subsidized meal plans.
Students on stairs
UC Newsroom |

UC campuses, programs recognized for diversity

Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award, 'Bright Spot' in Hispanic education highlight UC's commitment to supporting diversity on campuses and in society.
UC San Diego |

Hearts build new muscle with this simple protein patch

Successful in mice and pigs, researchers hope to test the patch in human clinical trials as early as 2017.
solar thermal technology
UC Newsroom |

UC ranked among top innovative universities

Reuters places UC system 13th in its top 100 list of most innovative universities around the globe.
UC Davis |

Invention helps California growers optimize water use

Technology developed at UC Davis is giving growers tools to help irrigate more effectively during the California drought and beyond.
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UC Santa Cruz |

Genomics institute partners with Microsoft to accelerate biomedical research

Partnership provides the institute with access to new computing, data storage and analysis capabilities.
Japanese American draft resisters at Tule Lake camp
UCLA |

Center shatters myth of 'quiet' Japanese Americans imprisoned in camps

Asian American Studies Center project collects evidence of resistance during the war years.
cows
UC Berkeley |

Virus in cattle linked to human breast cancer

Odds of breast cancer are greater when the easily transmitted bovine leukemia virus is present.