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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 Natural Reserve System |

Hunting for green treasure

Citizen scientists are joining botanists to find and measure California's plant diversity.
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UC San Francisco |

DNA guides 3-D printing of human tissue

Technique produces tiny models of human tissue, or ‘organoids,’ that can be used in cancer research and drug screening.
UC Santa Barbara |

Deflecting asteroids: fact or fiction?

Solar laser beams will push that deadly space rock out of a collision course with Earth: It sounds far-fetched, but it may be closer to reality than one might think.
UC San Francisco |

Federal funds will help launch nutrition and obesity research center

Center —one of only 12 nationwide – will support and facilitate studies on obesity, nutrition and metabolism at UCSF and across Northern California.
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UCLA |

More than 750,000 elderly Californians ‘unofficially’ poor

1 in 5 older adults have incomes above the federal poverty level, but still struggle to pay their expenses.
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UC San Francisco |

Sleep deprived get sick more often

Short sleepers are four times more likely to catch a cold, suggesting a rested immune system works better.
UC Merced |

Drones aid agriculture

UC Merced lab spurs students' use of technology to serve agriculture, environment, health.
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UC Berkeley |

Millet Project shows grain isn't just for the birds

Q&A with Amrita Hazra, who leads UC Berkeley's Millet Project team, with a Berkeley Food Institute seed grant and support from the UC Global Food Initiative's CLEAR subcommittee.
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UC Santa Barbara |

The shifting concept of home

New book examines how conventional nuclear-family-in-suburbia model has evolved into unique ‘lifespaces’ in 21st century America.
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UCLA |

New crusade for anti-bullying advocate

Story of the friendship between a stem cell scientist and a young athlete — and a message of encouragement for LGBT youth — is featured on ESPN.
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UC Irvine for The Conversation |

A teaching moment in the Ashley Madison hack

Why did people make their personal information so easily available to a company that facilitates cheating?
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California Magazine |

High-tech project will restore recorded Native American voices

Cutting-edge optical scanning technique developed by the Berkeley Lab promises to revitalize these old, fragile recordings.