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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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Andrew John De Los Santos won the first Chancellor's Advisory Committee's Sustainability Proposal Writing Contest.
UC Merced |

Sustainability ideas lead to award-winning proposal

UC Merced student Andrew John De Los Santos' entry, “Continual Growth Toward Sustainability Education,” is a three-phase program aimed at increasing awareness of sustainability among undergraduates. 
A farming landscape can be co-managed for both produce safety and nature conservation. Promising practices include buffering farm fields with non-crop vegetation to filter pathogens from runoff and planting low-risk crops between leafy green vegetables an
UC Berkeley |

Clearing habitat surrounding farm fields fails to reduce pathogens

The effort to improve food safety by clearing wild vegetation surrounding crops is not helping, and in some cases may even backfire, according to a new study led by researchers at UC Berkeley.
UC Davis |

After California wildfires, southern plants shift north

With tree canopies burned away, recovering landscapes become home to transplants like manzanita and monkey flower.
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UC San Diego |

Initiative assists graduate students for careers outside of academia

UC San Diego's Gradvantage seeks to prepare scholars for a range of jobs in a changing economy.
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UC Irvine |

Precariously balanced rocks provide clues to fault connections

San Jacinto, San Andreas interaction weakens earthquake shaking near them, study lead by UC Irvine finds.
UC Santa Cruz ecologist Barry Servino suspects a warming climate might give southern alligator lizards an edge over their northern cousins.
UC Santa Cruz |

Edges of extinction

UC Santa Cruz ecologist Barry Sinervo studies dying species like a detective at a murder scene, hoping to help preserve threatened species.
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UC Berkeley |

Hunter or prey? The eyes are the key

Pupil shape — horizontal, vertical or circular — is linked to animals’ place in the ecological web.
Janet Napolitano
UC Newsroom |

President Napolitano to interview Salk biographer

Commonwealth Club event Aug. 19 features Napolitano in conversation with Dr. Charlotte Jacobs, author of "Jonas Salk: A Life."
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UC Santa Cruz |

Precision medicine initiative funds UC Santa Cruz pediatric cancer project

State initiative provides $1.2 million for the Genomics Institute's California Kids Cancer Comparison project.
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography |

Climate change causes timing shifts in fish reproduction

Warmer ocean temperatures affect seasonal cycles, study finds.
UC San Diego students
UC San Diego |

UC San Diego participates in Coursera Global Skills Initiative

Qualcomm Institute and San Diego Supercomputer Center online courses have goal to advance access to job-relevant skills around the world.
Alice Waters (left) tours the Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley with UC President Janet Napolitano at the launch of the UC Global Food Initiative.
UC Santa Cruz |

Q&A with Alice Waters

Chez Panisse chef and owner, a UC Berkeley alumna, will receive the Foundation Medal at UC Santa Cruz's Founders Celebration Fiat Fifty dinner on Sept. 26.