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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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UC President Napolitano and Oakland high school students
UC Newsroom |

UC president awards scholarships to Oakland teens

Six Oakland teens, all UC bound, receive scholarships from UC Office of the President.
UC Davis |

Program helps to bridge gap between research and market

Grants will make it possible to generate early proof-of-concept models to demonstrate commercial feasibility.
NASA's Stardust spacecraft
UC Berkeley |

Captured space dust likely came from beyond solar system

Seven tiny grains, captured by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft, may turn out to be the first confirmed samples of contemporary interstellar dust.
UC Davis |

State of the lake: high (tech) and dry at Tahoe

Drought, climate change and other natural and human factors are driving changes at Lake Tahoe.
Lawrence Berkeley Lab |

Microbial-based antimalarial drug shipped to Africa

Thirteen-year project culminates with pharmaceutical firm sending 1.7 million treatments of semi-synthetic artemisinin.
UC Newsroom |

UC Irvine named coolest green school by Sierra magazine

All nine UC undergraduate campuses make ranking of most sustainable universities in the country.
D.B. Weiss and David Benioff
UC Irvine |

Irvine alum co-created "Game of Thrones"

Once a struggling writer, alumnus David Benioff is now Hollywood royalty as the co-creator of HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones.’
UC Davis |

Drought and humans combine for dangerous fire season

Ten major wildfires are blazing in California; several more are burning in Oregon and Washington.
S.P.Q.R. by Terry Schoonhoven
UCLA |

Mural in student lounge rediscovered as campus treasure

Painting by acclaimed artist Terry Schoonhoven is one of his last remaining murals.
UC Newsroom |

UC Nobel winners exemplify power of a public education

Discoveries and contributions from 60 UC laureates underscore the value of investing in basic research.
ELFIN satellite radio test
UCLA |

UCLA undergrads are first to build an entire satellite on campus

Dozens of students from majors across campus have spent thousands of hours on building a loaf-of-bread-sized satellite that will measure space weather.
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UC Santa Barbara |

Polymer repairs itself in wet conditions

Researchers synthesize a polymer that can repair itself in wet conditions.