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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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Meet 4 UC-trained nurses who are solving California’s biggest health care challenges

Nurses graduating from UC take on one of the biggest challenges facing our state: A shortage of clinicians that makes it too hard for too many people to get the medical care they need.

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UC Berkeley |

Deep sleep may mitigate Alzheimer’s memory loss, UC Berkeley research shows

“Think of deep sleep almost like a life raft that keeps memory afloat, rather than memory getting dragged down by the weight of Alzheimer’s disease pathology,” one researcher said.
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UC San Francisco |

UCSF is first in California to provide drug-gene testing

New testing will provide critical clues about a patient’s unique genetic makeup, enabling pharmacists to tailor medications and dosages accordingly.
First Folio collection of Shakespeare plays with text on the left page and a portrait of Shakespeare on the right
UC Irvine |

A 400th birthday bash under glass

A new exhibit toasts the 400th anniversary of the First Folio, a rare, first-edition Shakespeare anthology owned by UC Irvine.
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UC Santa Barbara |

UC Santa Barbara to lead NSF-funded research institute for next-level AI-powered cybersecurity

UC Santa Barbara is to be the headquarters of a NSF-funded state-of-the-art AI-powered cybersecurity institute.
Justin Lee delivers his Grad Slam talk with a projected screen behind him
UC Newsroom |

Tune in Friday, May 5 for Grad Slam, UC’s rapid-fire research communication contest

10 UC graduate students will vie to captivate the audience with their research in three minutes or less and win the Grad Slam title.
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UCLA |

Honoring 100 years of Black Greek life

This year marks the centennial of UCLA’s first African American sorority and fraternity.
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UC Davis |

Food truck offers free meals to students in need

The new AggieEats food truck is believed to be the first and only one in the nation to serve free meals on a college campus.
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UC Berkeley |

ChatGPT architect, UC Berkeley alum John Schulman on his journey with AI

In an interview, Schulman discussed his time at UC Berkeley, why he cofounded OpenAI and the future of artificial general intelligence.
Gaurav Sant, a UCLA professor of civil and environmental engineering and materials science and engineering.
UC Newsroom |

The University of California ranks No. 1 in higher education for U.S. patents

Researchers across the UC system produce, on average, five new discoveries each day.
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UCSF |

There’s a more humane way to monitor Crohn’s and colitis patients

UCSF Health pioneers ultrasound in western U.S. for adults with bowel disease.
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UC Riverside |

Older adults may achieve same cognition as undergrads

Learning multiple tasks led to cognition improvements that got better with the passage of time.
Harmonia Rosales, Birth of Oshun, detail, 2017, oil on canvas. Reminiscent of the famous Botticelli painting of a woman in a clamshell, The Birth of Venus
UC Santa Barbara |

Harmonia Rosales recasts the Renaissance with West African tales from the same period

An exhibition of paintings that draw subject matter from the transatlantic slave trade and Yorùbá myths, originated at UC Santa Barbara, will soon visit Spelman College, an Historically Black College.