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UC Newsroom |

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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Almonds
UC Davis |

Almonds contribute little to carbon emissions, study finds

Almonds have a surprisingly small carbon footprint compared to other nutrient-rich crops, reports a team of researchers at UC Davis and UC Agriculture and Natural Resources.
In a TED talk, Pamela Ronald describes her decade-long quest to isolate a gene that allows rice to survive prolonged flooding.
UC Davis |

Rice disease-resistance discovery closes loop for scientific integrity

Researchers hope to use information to develop new strategies to prevent infection in various crops.
UC Davis |

Drought, climate change fuel high-elevation California fires

Wildfires in California’s fabled Sierra Nevada mountain range are increasingly burning high-elevation forests, which historically have seldom burned,
Lake Tahoe
UC Davis |

Curb the algae to keep Tahoe blue

Algae, not clarity, is the key factor in the lake's azure waters.
THOR robot on the soccer pitch
UCLA |

THOR kicks to the top of robot soccer

UCLA/Penn team won first place at RoboCup, a global robot soccer tournament held in China.
bottle of vegetable oil
UC Riverside |

Soybean oil may be more fattening than fructose or coconut oil

The main ingredient in vegetable oil is linked to weight gain, fatty liver, diabetes and insulin resistance.
Janet Napolitano
UC Newsroom |

Napolitano: Preserving the environment ‘a moral imperative’

In keynote speech, UC president highlights the role colleges and universities must play in protecting the planet.
genome
UC Santa Cruz |

New support for human genome variation project

Keck Foundation pledges $2 million to create full-scale human genome map.
solar panels, UC Merced
UC Newsroom |

Santa Barbara energy expert named 2015 Sustainability Champion

David Auston is regarded as the 'MVP' of the UC systemwide Carbon Neutrality Initiative.
grads toss their mortarboards
UC Newsroom |

Half of new UC students are first-generation college students

New data in UC's annual Accountability Report show the university’s widespread impact as an engine of social mobility, innovation.
early dwellers of the Americas
UC Berkeley |

Genome analysis pinpoints arrival, spread of first Americans

Siberians moved into North America in a single wave less than 23,000 years ago.
augmented reality sandbox
UCLA |

Make it rain: Check out augmented reality teaching sandbox

Augmented Reality Sandbox lets users sculpt mountains, canyons and rivers, then fill them with water or even create erupting volcanoes.