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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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An illustration of cholesterol plaque in a human heart artery.
UC Riverside |

Could exposure to chemicals in plastics predispose you and your children to cardiovascular disease?

A $6.8M NIEHS grant will support research on how exposure to such chemicals increases atherosclerosis.
Biologist in a bumblebee research lab
UC Irvine |

The secret life of bumblebees

UC Irvine scientist uncovers surprising facts about the fuzzy insects
Asteroid surrounded by boulders
UCLA |

Planetary defense test deflected an asteroid but unleashed a boulder swarm

UCLA-led study of NASA’s DART mission determines that the strategy presents previously unanticipated risks
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UC Berkeley |

Brain recordings capture musicality of speech — with help from Pink Floyd

Neuroscientists decode song from brain recordings, revealing areas dealing with rhythm and vocals
Australian football players collide over ball
UC San Francisco |

New concussion headset shows when it’s safe to return to play

UC San Francisco-patented device finds resuming sports should be delayed for several days after symptoms have resolved.
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UC Santa Barbara |

Dogs can detect COVID-19 infections faster and more accurately than conventional technology

Research demonstrates readiness for mainstream medical applications
An illustration of skin care products
UCSF |

Which skin care products do we really need?

Skin care is big business — just ask the multibillion-dollar beauty industry. But does it truly take a cabinet full of pricey products to keep our skin healthy?
A tree in the shape of a DNA helix
UC Santa Cruz |

A 15-year-old childhood cancer survivor becomes a cancer researcher

This summer, young Robert McCabe helped to sequence and analyze a tumor sample in the lab of the UC Santa Cruz Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative.
Young African American man De'Marcus Robinson, smiling, in the center of a shark collage
UCLA |

What’s scarier: A 50-ton megalodon or a doctoral dissertation?

As ‘The Meg 2’ opens in theaters, we ask UCLA’s De’Marcus Robinson which he would rather face.
Interracial group of children of mixed age run and cheer on the first day of new academic year.
UC Irvine |

Helping your child fight (and beat) the back-to-school anxiety monster

UC Irvine psychologist Jessica Borelli offers tips to help smooth the transition to fall.
A group of Ukrainian refugees standing outside in winter coats, a middle-aged woman holding a small dog in front
UC Berkeley |

As refugees surge, European voters show ‘resilient’ support, study finds

War has driven millions of refugees to seek haven in Europe. Now research shows a surprise: A growing number of European voters — on the left and the right — support them.
A cancer cell and a DNA strand in orange colors
UC San Diego |

Researchers engineer bacteria that can detect tumor DNA

Their innovation could pave the way to new biosensors capable of identifying various infections, cancers, including colon cancer, and other diseases.