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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 San Francisco |

Longer telomeres linked to brain cancer risk

Gene variants may promote overall health while increasing risk of gliomas.
UC San Francisco |

Faster DNA sleuthing saves critically ill boy

Genome experts show value of new generation of sequencing techniques in diagnosing brain infection.
UC San Diego |

UC San Diego's Physics Girl wins national competition

Outreach coordinator creates YouTube videos that encourage girls to pursue science.
UC Davis |

Engineers take part in 'WalkAgain' at World Cup

A paraplegic with the help of robotic exoskeleton will kick a ball during the opening ceremony of soccer tournament.
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UC Riverside |

Cleaning the air with roof tiles

Students develop coating that removes up to 97 percent of smog-causing nitrogen oxides.
UCLA |

Poor health, lifestyle factors linked to memory complaints

Early complaints often precursors to significant decline in later life, UCLA/Gallup study says.
UC Riverside |

Pulitzer Prize-winning author to teach at UC Riverside

Jane Smiley joins distinguished faculty of the Department of Creative Writing.
Carlos Cortés
UC Riverside |

Professor edits new encyclopedia on multiculturalism in America

Carlos Cortés, professor emeritus of history, worked as lead editor for "Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia."
David Blackwell
UC Berkeley |

Life stories of early black faculty offer window onto history

Eighteen African American faculty and senior administrators, hired before the advent of affirmative-action policies in the 1970s, recount their stories in an oral-history series.
UC Santa Cruz and Queen Mary University |

Astronomers detect two planets orbiting nearby ancient star

An international team of scientists has reported two planets orbiting a nearby and very old star known as Kapteyn's star.
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California Magazine |

Aliens are almost surely out there

Berkeley's SETI says we're not alone. But can we find the money to find them?
UCLA |

Taking brakes off immune system to fight deadly cancers

Doctors see successes with an experimental drug in two types of cancer with historically low survival rates: metastatic melanoma and lung cancer.