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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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Jeff Dahlberg, director of the UC Kearney Research and Extension Center, with the time capsule that will be buried May 26.
ANR |

UC scientists to bury time capsule with letters to successors

Project part of May 26 celebration to commemorate 50th anniversary of UC Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Parlier.
HIV microclinic in Kenya
UC San Francisco |

Microclinics help keep Kenyan HIV patients in care

Activating patients’ existing social networks helps reduce the stigma of the disease.
Children dancing to Gangnam Style
UC San Diego |

Youth dance classes score low in physical activity

Most youth dance classes — from ballet to hip hop — score lower than expected in physical activity.
field of opium poppies
UC Berkeley |

Discovery paves way for homebrewed drugs, prompts call for regulation

Sugar-fed yeast — long used for homebrewed alcohol — can yield drugs ranging from antibiotics to morphine. That may be where the government draws the line.
Oscar Wilde
UCLA |

Oscar Wilde was not a plagiarist

Joseph Bristow delves into Wilde’s obsession with obscure poet Thomas Chatterton, deems 'notebook' his original work.
LLNL biologists James Thissen and Crystal Jaing along with researchers from Kansas State University found that the Microbial Detection Array could help identify diseases in the commercial swine industry.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |

Lawrence Livermore Lab technology could help detect diseases in commercial swine industry

The biological detection system also could be useful for cattle and poultry diagnostic tests, as well as for pets such as dogs and cats.
UC Santa Cruz |

Astronomers baffled by discovery of rare quasar quartet

Four quasars, each one a rare object in its own right, have been found in close physical proximity to each other.
students serving food
UC Newsroom |

UC focuses on student food security

UC campuses this spring are surveying students to assess the scope of food security issues, implementing short-term relief where needed and exploring long-term solutions that address student nutrition — UC regents to discuss food security May 21.
UC Berkeley |

Grocery shopping app for at-risk Oakland residents wins campus challenge

Snapily takes first place in CITRIS Mobile App Challenge at UC Berkeley, where students develop mobile apps for social impact.
elephants
UCLA |

Which is most valuable: gold, cocaine or rhino horn?

The answer is devastating news for Earth’s largest animals.
UC San Diego |

Biology students join hundreds of undergrads to co-author paper

Fruit fly genomics project included more than 900 students nationwide doing original research.
Cheryl Anderson, UC San Diego
UC San Diego |

Recipe for wellness

UC San Diego nutrition expert helps define national prescription for healthy diet.