For these UC students, hands-on research has led to class credit, money for school and a path to their dream future.

The University of California today (April 24) announced the 2025 cohort of UC President’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellows, 42 outstanding young scientists and economists from across the UC system who will join Nobel laureates from around the world at two renowned scholarly gatherings in Lindau, Germany.

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.

Get a master class — in brief — on cutting-edge UC discoveries as graduate students explain their complex research in just 3 minutes flat.

The first solar-over-canal project in California, which started with research at UC Merced, has begun producing electricity. A groundbreaking initiative led by faculty from multiple UCs aims to accelerate the deployment of solar arrays over California's extensive canal network.

UC faculty account for nearly 1 in 10 new members on this prestigious roster of U.S. innovators and leaders.

Each UC campus now resides among the exclusive group of 187 accredited doctoral-granting universities in the United States designated R1 by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

UC Merced professor Erin Hestir co-led NASA's first-ever biodiversity-focused study.

Did you know that tuition is fully covered for more than half of UC's California students? Find out more about financial aid.

Five inspiring UC students received honors at the UC Regents meeting in San Francisco last week.

President Jimmy Carter made his way to a young UC Merced campus to accept the Spendlove Prize in social justice, diplomacy and tolerance in 2010.

New research from UC scientists links intensifying wet and dry swings to the atmosphere's sponge-like ability to drop and absorb water.