Three women posing with giant checks

Featured Story

UC Newsroom |

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.

A student researcher smiles in a lab coat around blue tubing

Featured Story

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.

List Grid
Community
Campuses & Locations
Categories
UCLA cogeneration plant
UCLA |

UCLA creates nation’s largest self-replenishing fund for green projects

Savings from new sustainability projects will be rolled over to fund future projects.
students with laptops
UC Newsroom |

UC hosts tech summit

Tech summit draws UC and industry leaders to explore applications that build on the things that make college great.
UC Santa Barbara |

Aiming for a carbon neutral future

Representatives from UC campuses and research labs meet to discuss the ambitious systemwide Carbon Neutrality Initiative.
Brittany Maynard
California Magazine |

Brittany Maynard plans to end her life

In the face of a terminal diagnosis, the UC Berkeley grad has taken control of her life — and death.
Aindrila Mukhopadhyay and Heather Jensen
Lawrence Berkeley Lab |

Boosting biogasoline production in microbes

Biology and genetic engineering join forces to fuel production of a type of alcohol in E. coli.
UC Newsroom |

Spicy science: Producing hotter peppers

How hot do you like your peppers? Spicy pepper seekers, take heart: University of California researchers are studying ways to make hotter jalapeños.
Victoria Salas works on the UC Santa Cruz farm
UC Santa Cruz |

UC Santa Cruz has much to offer the UC Global Food Initiative

UC Santa Cruz — 'the Mothership' of organic agriculture — has much to offer UC's ambitious Global Food Initiative.
community gardeners
UC San Diego |

Former food desert now feeds a community’s spirit

San Diego residents are transforming a 20,000-square-foot vacant urban lot into a community focal point for healthy place making.
baseball pitcher
UC San Francisco |

What monkeys can teach us about pitching

New motor learning research suggests that 'muscle memory actually is something the brain is constantly relearning.
Joseph Martinus, UCLA
UC Newsroom |

UC celebrates Food Day with buffet of activities

Across the UC system, Food Day participation will include lectures, discussions, film screenings, farmers markets, food demonstrations and special dining menus.
UC Newsroom |

UC to host technology summit

Summit will convene educators and industry experts around enhancing the student experience.
Long Valley Dam (Stephen Volpin photo)
UC Davis |

Fish survival depends on these dams

New tool identifies almost 200 dams — including some of California's largest — as having flows that may be too low to sustain healthy fish populations.