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Next up for UC’s Class of 2025? Building California’s brilliant future

From jobs to graduate school to giving back to the communities they came from, UC’s latest crop of graduates has big plans to make a difference.

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Is college worth it? For University of California grads, the data offers an undeniable ‘Yes!’

Not only do large percentages of UC alums enter the workforce with no student debt, but their degrees deliver an array of economic and social benefits both for themselves and their communities.

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UC Davis |

What to know about processed and ultra-processed food

Experts weigh in on the debate behind how processed foods could affect health and how the food industry could improve.
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UC Newsroom |

What makes a UC education stand apart? Opportunities for hands-on learning and undergraduate research

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

Bursting your bubble: Chewing gum releases microplastics into your saliva, UCLA research shows

A person happily gnawing away on a large piece of gum could unleash more than 3,000 microplastic particles, according to the UCLA team.
Lick Observatory is located on the summit of Mt. Hamilton in the Diablo Range east of San Jose.
UC Santa Cruz |

Lick Observatory to mark 150 years of discovery and innovation

Serving nine UC campuses and two national laboratories, Lick Observatory continues to be at the forefront of groundbreaking discoveries and innovation, training the next generation of astronomers and astrophysicists.
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UC Newsroom |

4 California critters making a comeback with help from UC researchers

This Earth Day, we’re celebrating stories from the past year of UC research that illustrate the resilience of life on our planet.
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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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UC Davis |

Researchers develop an LSD analogue with potential for treating schizophrenia

A new, neuroplasticity-promoting drug closely related to LSD harnesses the psychedelic’s therapeutic power with reduced hallucinogenic potential, according to UC Davis research.
A cross section of the upper atmosphere, or troposphere, of Jupiter, showing the depth of storms in a north-south swath that crosses the planet’s equator, or equatorial zone.
UC Berkeley |

On Jupiter, it’s mushballs all the way down

Slushy hailstones of ammonia and water were part of a bizarre theory to explain the planet's poorly mixed atmosphere. These mushballs seem to be real, say UC Berkeley scientists.
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UC Davis |

Can citizen science be trusted? New study of birds shows it can

A UC Davis study found that data from iNaturalist and eBird can reliably capture known seasonal patterns of bird migration in Northern California and Nevada.
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UC San Francisco |

Popular CT scans could account for 5 percent of all cancer cases a year

Radiation from imaging could lead to lung, breast and other future cancers, with a 10-fold increased risk for babies, according to researcher from UC San Francisco.
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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.
The five actors who play the Ratliff family walk down a gangplank on a pier together in a scene from The White Lotus
UC Berkeley |

A UC Berkeley professor unpacks Freudian themes and fantasies from the latest season of HBO’s ‘The White Lotus’

Poulomi Saha, who studies post-colonialism and psychoanalytic critique, breaks down season three of the HBO series, from why it's set in Thailand to the unforgettable monologue in episode five.