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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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UCLA |

Finding strategies to recruit, retain women, minorities as computer majors

Tech companies are funding research to find strategies to recruit and retain women and minorities in computer science majors.
Scientists warn that humans have been depleting soil at rates that are orders of magnitude greater than our current ability to replenish it. They say that fixing this imbalance is critical to global food security over the next century.
UC Berkeley |

Soil depletion threatens global food security

If trajectory does not change, soil erosion, combined with effects of climate change, will present huge risk to global food security over next century, soil scientists at UC Berkeley and UC Merced warn.
Aileen Suzara presents Bahay Kubo: Kitchen Gardens of Living Tradition at the Big Ideas 2015 Grand Prize Pitch Day
UC Berkeley |

Big Ideas@Berkeley announces contest winners

The student innovation received a record number of applications from 201 teams representing more than 700 students across nine UC campuses and 17 other universities, including 41 applications for the new Food System Innovations category.
A new vaccine developed by veterinary immunologist Jeff Stott shows promise for preventing foothill abortion disease, which kills calves before or at birth.
UC Davis |

Vaccine field trials for deadly 'foothill abortion' cattle disease expand

Thanks in part to researchers at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, cattle ranchers are one step closer to having a vaccine available to treat a tick-borne bacterial disease that kills cow fetuses.
UC Santa Cruz |

UC Santa Cruz updates instructor's manual for teaching small farm direct marketing

The new edition of Teaching Direct Marketing and Small Farm Viability: Resources for Instructors draws on nearly 50 years of experience teaching these skills to beginning organic farmers and gardeners at the UC Santa Cruz Farm & Garden Apprenticeship.
McNair Program students
UC San Diego |

Diverse undergraduates discover pathway to Ph.D.

McNair Program prepares underrepresented students for the rigors of graduate study.
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UC Berkeley |

Scientists begin monitoring tremors on San Andreas Fault

Borehole seismometers will monitor faint tremors beneath the San Andreas Fault — part of UC Berkeley’s TremorScope project to determine the link between tremors and earthquakes.
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UC Irvine |

FDA greenlights clinical trial of treatment for blinding disease

Novel retinitis pigmentosa therapy has been created by stem cell researchers.
UC Newsroom |

UC president, Riverside chancellor meet with community college leaders

President Napolitano's transfer initiative seeks to enhance UC's partnership with the California Community College system.
Cellscope Loa
UC Berkeley |

Smartphone microscope automates detection of parasites in blood

CellScope technology could help revive efforts to wipe out diseases in Africa by providing critical information to health providers in the field.
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UC Merced |

Researchers reverse bacterial resistance to antibiotics

Biology and math join forces to force superbugs to evolve backward, allowing existing drugs to regain their effectiveness.
Ashley Fong, UC Grad Slam winner
UC Newsroom |

Researchers wow audience at first UC Grad Slam

At systemwide research communications contest, graduate students captivate audiences while sticking to the mantra: Keep it simple.