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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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Francisco Javier Mendieta Jimenez speaks with students
UC Irvine |

Shooting for the stars

Mexican Space Agency hopes partnership with UC Irvine will help develop program’s ‘human capital.’
Susan Eggman and Domonique Jones
UC Newsroom |

Supporters visit capitol for UC Day 2015

Representatives from all 10 UC campuses spent UC Day meeting with state lawmakers on the importance of funding and its payoff in a stronger economy and a better-educated workforce.
Among the discussions at the symposium was a presentation on earth-based food practices, such as worm composting.
UC Santa Barbara |

Native food, native wisdom

A symposium on native food ways at UC Santa Barbara emphasized the connection between indigenous Americans and their traditional staples.
Sugar
UC San Francisco |

Sugar Papers reveal industry role in 1970s dental program

Newly discovered documents reveal that the sugar industry worked closely with the National Institutes of Health to develop a federal research program focused on approaches other than sugar reduction to prevent tooth decay.
UC Newsroom |

U.S. News ranks UC graduate schools among best in nation

U.S. News' Best Graduate Schools evaluates graduate schools for business, education, engineering, law, medicine and nursing; in each discipline, all or nearly all UC graduate schools were highly ranked.
UC Newsroom |

Curing cancer, one tax return at a time

Check a box and fund two UC-administered cancer research projects — one helping young women preserve fertility and sexual health, the other creating a safer, more effective tool for early detection of lung cancer.
boy smells flower
UC San Diego |

Understanding how neurons shape memories of smells

Discovery has implications for understanding epilepsy, the cause of which also stems from the olfactory cortex.
UC Riverside |

UC-Mexico Initiative Advisory Board meets in Ensenada, Mexico

Board eyes ways to involve Mexican and American private sectors, as well as measuring success of student and faculty exchanges, research collaborations and scholarly activities.
heart-on-a-chip wafer
UC Berkeley |

Bioengineers put human hearts on a chip to aid drug screening

'Heart-on-a-chip' effectively uses human cardiac muscle cells derived from adult stem cells to model how a human heart reacts to cardiovascular medications.
dormouse
UC Santa Barbara |

Environment in the African savanna linked to human health

Community ecologist spotlights how environmental management affects disease emergence.
Ruined house, Fukushima, Japan
UCLA |

Researchers document disaster recovery in, around Fukushima

Video, photos, interviews and mapping tools capture the extent of damage four years after the 2011 quake and tsunami.
3-D structure
UC Berkeley |

First-of-its-kind 3-D-printed cement structure rises

Powder-based structure, standing 9 feet tall, is a demonstration of the architectural potential of 3-D printing.