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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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UC Berkeley |

Investor joins in $100M search for extraterrestrial intelligence

Breakthrough Prize founder Yuri Milner joins 10-year commitment to ramp up SETI.
UC medical centers are collaborating to increase efficiencies in supply chain, revenue cycle, clinical laboratories and information technology.
UC Newsroom |

UC Health initiative cuts costs, improves quality

Program saved $70 million in first year, aims to save at least $150 million a year in coming years.
UC Berkeley |

Ultra-low-cost solution to a big water problem

Blum Center contest winner aims to remove excess fluoride from drinking water.
UC President Janet Napolitano listens to UC Global Food Initiative student fellows discuss their projects April 20 at Masumoto Family Farm in Del Rey.
UC Newsroom |

Student fellows to unite at symposium

Several dozen student fellows representing two of UC President Janet Napolitano’s initiatives — carbon neutrality and global food — will join together at a symposium July 20 in San Francisco.
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UCLA |

Students head for frontlines of Palestinian-Israeli conflict

Participants journey with the Olive Tree Initiative, a UC-based organization that promotes understanding through immersion in the history, culture and complexities of the conflict.
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UC Davis |

Mountain lions' mortal enemy: man

In Southern California, the biggest single threat to the animals' survival is Homo sapiens.
The UC Global Food Initiative is off to a fast start.
UC Newsroom |

UC Global Food Initiative marks first year

The initiative is off to a fast start as faculty, students and staff from across the 10-campus UC system focus their collective power on food issues.
UC San Francisco |

Blood cell research turns personal

When Min Cho started researching protein translational mechanisms in blood cancers, it was just an abstract concept. His perspective changed when he was diagnosed with a rare blood disease.
A closeup view of the coffee berry borer.
Berkeley Lab |

Coffee pest relies on bacteria in gut to survive its caffeine craving

Berkeley Lab and USDA research could lead to new ways to fight beetle that devastates coffee crops worldwide.
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UC Newsroom |

Money ranks 8 UC campuses as best college values

Eight UC undergraduate locations are top colleges in magazine's rankings.
one woman, four expressions
UC Berkeley |

The sleep-deprived brain can mistake friends for foes

Without enough shut-eye, a smile can look more like a scowl. And the price for that mistake can be high.
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UC San Diego |

What we know colors what we see

Perception is strongly influenced by prior knowledge, lending credence to the theory that the brain does not faithfully represent the environment but rather attempts to predict it.