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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 Newsroom |

Healthy elders may hold key to fighting cancer

'Wellderly' may have unknowingly fought — and beaten — cancer; their immune systems may hint at how.
UC San Francisco |

‘Wasabi receptor’ points to pain drug development

‘Wasabi receptor’ — why your sinuses tingle when you taste it — points to future pain drug development.
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California Magazine |

Cleanly electrifying the world

Decentralized transmission networks, cheap photovoltaics, sophisticated low-energy appliances, mobile phones and 'virtual' financial services are all merging to create an alternative power grid.
Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe
UC Davis |

Lake Tahoe water clarity in 2014 the best in more than a decade

Water clarity in 2014 at the lake was the best in more than a decade.
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UCLA |

Retired NFL players who suffered concussions show pattern of protein deposits

New test may lead to better identification of brain disorders linked to contact sports.
Stella Liu
UC Irvine |

Sowing the seeds of change

With her gardening kit startup, senior Stella Liu hopes to motivate people to grow their own food.
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UC Santa Barbara |

The brain game

A team of researchers provides new insight into what occurs in the brain during the learning process.
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UC San Diego |

What is it about yoga?

Researchers are examining yoga's physiological effects to see if they provide health benefits beyond what can be achieved with non-movement-based mindfulness practices.
UC San Francisco |

Researchers identify calorie-burning beige fat in humans

It appears to be the trigger for converting energy-storing white fat into energy-burning brown fat.
Michael Pollan makes a point about the amount of oil it takes to produce a hamburger during an Edible Education lecture at UC Berkeley.
UC Food Observer |

Q&A with Michael Pollan

The award-winning journalist, author and UC Berkeley professor talks about California's drought, food politics and what institutions can do to encourage change.
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UC Berkeley |

Calaveras-Hayward fault link means potentially larger quakes

Seismologists have proven that the Hayward and Calaveras faults are essentially the same system, meaning that a rupture on one could trigger a rupture on the other, producing considerably larger quakes than once thought.
UC Merced cell phone users can report water leaks
UC Merced |

New system can help save water with a couple of clicks

Software allows anyone at UC Merced with a smartphone to report water leaks in a couple of easy steps.