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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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GFI Durell
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Organic farm serves up life lessons for UC students

Field trip gives UC Global Food Initiative fellows a chance to get their hands dirty.
UCLA laughter study
UCLA |

Friends or not? Just a second of laughter can reveal relationship status

A UCLA study finds that listeners across the globe can tell a lot from your laugh.
UC Berkeley tree of life
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The tree of life expands

UC Berkeley scientists pull up biology by the roots and reveal new hierarchies in the natural world.
UCSF health law
UC San Francisco |

Innovative master's program to meld health and law launched

New UCSF-UC Hastings online degree helps graduates resolve policy dilemmas in the health care system.
UCLA Guggenheim
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2016 Guggenheim fellowships awarded to 12 UC faculty

Prestigious midcareer awards granted to scholars and artists across seven campuses.
UCLA biochemistry
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Major advance in biochemistry holds promise for biofuels

UCLA biochemists have devised a way to convert sugar into a variety of useful chemical compounds without using cells.
The UC Davis Olive Center’s Dan Flynn, second from right, stands alongside Juan Gómez, rector of the University of Jaén, during the award ceremony in Castillo de Canena, the castle after which the olive oil company is named. Also pictured are company owne
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UC Davis Olive Center shares expertise with Spain

Luis Vañó Prize goes to a research team at Spain’s University of Córdoba.
UC Davis reading study
UC Davis |

UC Davis scientists get a new look into how we read

Researchers discover a way to observe brain activity during natural reading, expanding our ability to understand language.
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Do your politics make you happy?

Does being conservative or liberal make you a happier person? And should that influence how you vote?
UC Grad Slam
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Grad students compete to make their research accessible

UC Grad Slam challenges students to sum up the subject of their dissertation, TED-style.
Unemployed smokers have a harder time finding a job
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Smokers struggle to find jobs, get paid less

A new study supported by UC has found that tobacco use while unemployed could make job prospects go up in smoke.
UC Riverside student volunteers, recruited by Global Food Intiative fellow Claudia Villegas, set up new garden beds at the Community Settlement Association.
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UC Cooperative Extension takes community gardening to new level in Riverside

UC Cooperative Extension in Riverside County is bringing together students, agencies, nutrition educators and gardening experts to work alongside families to grow produce in garden plots at a community facility.