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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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Rene Amel Peralta
UC Newsroom |

Against the odds, chemistry grad finds a path out of poverty

By the time he was 6, Rene Amel Peralta was already working full time in construction and odds jobs in Mexico, just trying to survive. By 13, he and his sister had been abandoned by their only parent and had made the treacherous journey across the border. But…
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UC Newsroom |

New UC grads share tales of triumph

As UC's newly minted grads look forward to embarking on a bright new chapter, we profile a few whose extraordinary grit and determination brought them to the place they are today.
Tamela Adkins
UC Newsroom |

Newly minted UC Merced graduate completes path from career to college

On the 10-year-old UC Merced campus, Tamela Adkins is as veteran as they come. The emergency preparedness manager was among the first employees at the newest UC campus when it opened its doors on Sept. 5, 2005. Last month, the 53-year-old became one of its…
Getahun Weldeselassie and family
UC Newsroom |

Hard work, ambition and a winning ticket fueled escape from Ethiopia's poverty

In the state of Tigray in northern Ethiopia, poverty and unemployment were rampant and very few had the fortune to go to college. But Getahun Weldeselassie nevertheless banked on education as his best shot at a better life. He scarcely could have imagined…
Cassie Nguyen
UC Riverside |

Diagnosed with brain cancer at 16, she didn't let her illness rule her life

Graduation is always joyful, but for UC Riverside’s Cassie Nguyen, it marks a milestone achieved with an especially large measure of persistence and hope. Nguyen, who will receive her bachelor’s degree in public policy from UC Riverside on June 14…
Andre Theus
UC Newsroom |

Former foster youth finds family, purpose on UC campus

Andre Theus will don his cap and gown June 13 at UC Santa Barbara with a list of accomplishments that includes lobbying in Washington and Sacramento, leadership in student government, and numerous honors and awards. Perhaps best of all, he graduates with a…
3-D-printed rocket test
UC San Diego |

3-D printed rocket engine aims for flight record

Student engineering team is shooting for a 10,000-foot flight at upcoming rocket competition.
dwarf planet Ceres
UCLA |

UCLA-led NASA mission eyes dwarf planet Ceres

First images from Dawn spacecraft produce up-close, 3-D model of the ‘mysterious’ terrain of the orb between Mars and Jupiter.
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UC Davis |

Fidgeting may help children with ADHD perform better in school

Study: Children who moved more intensely exhibited substantially better cognitive performance.
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UC San Diego |

Common antibiotic kills many multidrug-resistant bacteria

Azithromycin — commonly used to treat strep throat and sinusitis — is now thought to be effective against 'superbugs.'
Juan Felipe Herrera
UC Riverside |

Juan Felipe Herrera named U.S. poet laureate

Former California poet laureate will embrace hope as a theme during his term.
Graduating senior Rachel Rouse, also a UC Global Food Initiative Fellow at UC Santa Barbara, has been studying food insecurity and access among the student population.
UC Santa Barbara |

An appetite for food reform

First group of UC Global Food Initiative fellows at UC Santa Barbara is studying food waste on campus, food insecurity among students.