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A tale of Tinder wins the day at the 10th annual UC Grad Slam

The hotly anticipated annual contest offered a peek at groundbreaking research powered by graduate students across the University of California system.

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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 Santa Barbara brain power
UC Santa Barbara |

A switch for brain growth found

UC Santa Barbara and UCSF scientists find a gene responsible for our unique cerebral cortex.
UC San Diego CaliBaja Center
UC San Diego |

Engineers launch cross-border center to create materials that withstand extreme environments

Researchers come together to create materials for defense, nuclear and aerospace applications.
UC Santa Cruz slave voyages
UC Santa Cruz |

UC Santa Cruz professor to create new public database about the slave trade

UC Irvine also contributes research to visualizing its massive scale.
UC San Diego old habits new habits
UC San Diego |

How the brain makes – and breaks – a habit

Goal vs. habit: A UC San Diego professor researches how we may switch between the two.
Bone structure Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |

UC scientists identify gene involved with fracture healing

UC Davis, UC Merced and Lawrence Livermore Lab join forces on work that could lead to new therapies.
UC Davis biomedical innovation
UC Davis |

Biomedical innovations take top prizes in Big Bang! competition

UC Davis startups vie for funding to support new technologies in fertility and more.
UC San Diego wearable sensor
UC San Diego |

UC San Diego develops body patch that could improve fitness tracking

Unobstrusive device monitors both biochemical and electric signals at the same time — a first.
Precision Public Health Summit UCSF
UC San Francisco |

White House and Gates Foundation to convene precision public health summit at UCSF

Two-day live streamed conference will draw 150 leaders to discuss the early years of a child's life.
The La Mesa Verde program in San Jose helps low-income families to establish their own vegetable gardens
UC ANR |

Urban gardens improve food security

Growing food in community and home gardens can provide people with more access to fresh vegetables for a healthier food supply, study finds.
UCLA phone
UCLA |

The teenage brain on social media

A new UCLA study sheds light on the influence of what peers "like."
Riverside NSF survey
UC Riverside |

NSF funds extensive survey of Asian Americans

UCs Berkeley, Irvine, and Riverside team up to undertake the most extensive study of this fast-growing population to date.
Noelle David UC Merced
UC Merced |

Purple zebras? UC Merced on thinking, learning and neuroscience

Philosophers and scientists are coming together to unravel the secrets of cognitive science.