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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 Berkeley |

Now humans can navigate by sonar

Physicists use graphene to build lightweight ultrasonic loudspeakers and microphones, enabling people to mimic bats or dolphins’ ability to gauge distance and speed by using sound.
Hitoshi Abe
UCLA Magazine |

Homes with heart for Sendai

Architecture and urban design chair Hitoshi Abe is designing homes that will rise from the rubble in his quake- and tsunami-damaged hometown in Japan.
simulation of comet hitting young Earth
Lawrence Livermore Lab |

Did icy comets serve as storks for life on Earth

Astrobiologist investigates whether cosmic collisions were the key to earthly life.
Nissan Leaf taxi
Lawrence Berkeley Lab |

Driverless electric taxis could save money and the planet

Study finds lower greenhouse gas emissions on per-mile basis for driverless cars deployed as taxis — plus they're cost effective.
Dalai Lama birthday celebration
UC Irvine |

Birthday celebration for Dalai Lama coincides with compassion summit

Spiritual leader continues the Global Compassion Summit with discussions at UC Irvine.
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California Magazine |

Spinning silk sans spiders

It took a lot of spiders for Berkeley and UCSF alums to create a synthetic silk that's virtually identical to the real deal.
diagram, artificial heart and human heart
UCLA |

First successful heart transplant after using experimental artificial organ

Device is designed for use by smaller patients, buying time until a donor heart can be found.
Apprentices in ecological horticulture at UC Santa Cruz learn organic farming and gardening during a six-month course of study and practice. Applications for the 2016 program are due Aug. 15 for international applicants and Sept. 30 for U.S. citizens.
UC Santa Cruz |

Scholarships available for UC Santa Cruz organic farming apprenticeships

Application period opens for 2016 program -- applications due Aug. 15 for international applicants, Sept. 30 for U.S. citizens.
UC Santa Cruz |

Santa Cruz develops online courses available to all UC students

Online calculus courses are the first cross-campus courses that satisfy prerequisites at all nine UC undergraduate campuses.
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UC Santa Barbara via The Conversation |

Concrete jungle: Cities adapt to growing ranks of urban wildlife

In recent years, a host of charismatic wild species have returned to American cities in numbers not seen for generations.
Jerome Zack and Scott Kitchen
UCLA |

Stem cell gene therapy holds promise for eliminating HIV infection

Method modifies immune cells to attack the virus and could be used to treat other diseases.
Native prawns play a huge role in the novel schistosomiasis eradication effort. - See more at: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2015/015738/win-win-win-win#sthash.c0saYL2H.dpuf
UC Santa Barbara |

A win-win-win-win

With $1.5 million in National Science Foundation funding, a group of researchers from UC Santa Barbara and partner institutions will study the effects of a novel way of eradicating schistosomiasis.