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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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Yong Chen and Mark Bittman
UC Newsroom |

Mark Bittman, UC team up to launch California food video series

'Mark Bittman: California Matters' is a collaboration between the renowned food writer, UC and the Berkeley Food Institute that will explore leading-edge UC research in food, sustainable agriculture, policy and health.
Alumni Jack and Kim Johnson celebrated the launch of the Edible Campus project at UCSB, a sustainable food initiative supported by their Johnson Ohana Foundation.
UC Santa Barbara |

Farm team

Alumni Jack and Kim Johnson team with UC Santa Barbara’s Associated Students Food Bank and Department of Public Worms on new Edible Campus project to grow food on campus.
Rebecca Smith-Bindman, UC San Francisco
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UC Health center breaks down barriers to sharing innovations

The Center for Health Quality and Innovation's fourth annual colloquium addresses ways to extend improvements from one UC medical center to all UC medical centers.
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UC Irvine |

Zapping away space junk

A solution right out of sci-fi: shooting space debris with a laser mounted on the International Space Station.
graduate students
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Graduate Advocacy Day 2015

At advocacy day in Sacramento, students share research on a wide range of issues to highlight the benefits their work brings to the state.
Madison Scott and Blake Morris rehearse Macbeth
UC Irvine |

UC Irvine launches Shakespeare center

UCI Shakespeare Center aims to become the premier institution in California for the integrated production, study and enjoyment of the Bard's works.
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UC Davis |

Cosmic collisions wake up snoozing galaxies

When galaxy clusters collide, the resulting shockwave can “wake up” these dormant galaxies and drive a new generation of star formation.
Worker prepares world’s first algae surfboard
UC San Diego |

Surfing into a greener future

UC San Diego biology and chemistry students produce the world’s first algae-based, sustainable surfboard.
UC Davis |

Sugary drinks boost risk factors for heart disease

Even limited amounts of high-fructose corn syrup are shown to increase risk.
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Is there life out there? UC researchers aim to find out

NASA's quest to search for life on planets outside our solar system will be guided by experts from UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, among others.
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President Napolitano among new members of American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Academy's Class of 2015 includes 22 members from across the UC system.
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Art, science inspire student climate-change activism

37 students are awarded fellowships to work on projects that support UC's Carbon Neutrality Initiative.