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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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UCLA |

Male or female? It's not always so simple

Researchers are studying the biological origins of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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UCLA for The Conversation |

New antenna design could aid interplanetary communication

A small yet powerful antenna would allow the Mars rover to communicate directly with Earth, enabling much more data to be sent back and forth.
Scarlet macaws eat hundreds of fruits a day.
UC Santa Barbara |

Caught in a complex web

A new general consumer-resource model spans the mathematics of a century's worth of food web models and provides a common foundation for new food webs.
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UC Riverside |

Central Coast cities at significant tsunami risk

A quake centered below the Santa Barbara Channel could send inundating waves toward Ventura and Oxnard.
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UC Riverside |

How clean is your spinach?

Mom was right about washing the greens: Researchers believe peaks and valleys in leaves could be key to numerous bacterial outbreaks involving leafy green vegetables.
Selanops "gliding" spider
UC Berkeley |

Biologists discover skydiving spiders in South American forests

Biologists discover gliding, hunting arachnids in South American forests.
UC San Francisco |

Agricultural intervention improves HIV outcomes

Helping HIV positive Kenyans improve farming practices counters hunger.
California drought has hit the Central Valley hard.
UC Davis |

Drought costs California agriculture $1.8B, 10,100 jobs in 2015

The drought is tightening its grip on California agriculture, squeezing about 30 percent more workers and cropland out of production than in 2014, according to the latest drought impact report by UC Davis.
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UC Irvine |

UCI, NASA researchers find link between Amazon fire risk, devastating hurricanes

Warmer-than-usual waters in the North Atlantic contribute to both phenomena.
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UC Newsroom |

Ten projects win UC’s 2015 information technology awards

Ten teams representing multiple locations across the University of California won the 2015 Larry L. Sautter Award for using information technology to make university operations more effective and efficient, and to better serve faculty, staff, students and…
Stewie the cancer-sniffing dog
UC Davis |

Employing dogs to sniff out cancer

Pups will put their superior sense of smell to work detecting cancer, especially at early stages, in humans.
UC Berkeley
UC Newsroom |

UC campuses rate highly in world university rankings

UC Berkeley leads nine UC campuses in the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities.