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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.

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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 Berkeley |

Chemistry Nobelist Carolyn Bertozzi’s years at UC Berkeley

Bertozzi, who shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry, received her Ph.D. from Berkeley. She later became a professor in the College of Chemistry, where she conducting her seminal work.
Four young women walking around a neighborhood in Delano doing voter registration
UC Newsroom |

How UC students are unlocking the voting power of California youth

Inspired by the 1964 Freedom Summer Project to register Black voters in the South, UC Freedom Summer mobilizes young voters across California to unlock the voting power of their own communities.
Jessa Fate Bayudan, a UCLA student involved in Freedom Summer, knocks on doors to register voters in Delano
UC Newsroom |

Five minutes that could shape your future: Register now so you can vote in November.

Register online by Oct. 24 in California to take part in the upcoming 2022 election on Nov. 8.
Stuart Freedman in the early 1970s with the experimental apparatus he and John Clauser used to test “spooky action at a distance.”
UC Berkeley |

Physics Nobel recognizes UC Berkeley experiment on ‘spooky action at a distance’

John F. Clauser and the late Stuart Freedman carried out the first experiment to show the ‘weirdness’ of quantum physics.
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UC Merced |

‘Peace doesn't come from the sky’: Dalai Lama advocates for togetherness as he receives Spendlove Prize

A special recognition over a decade in the making was celebrated this month as His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama was awarded the Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance.
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UC Santa Cruz |

Partnership across UC campuses will prepare the next generation of leaders in organic agriculture

A grant of more than $700,000 from the USDA will support a UC collaboration to improve and expand undergraduate education in organic agriculture, with an emphasis on supporting underrepresented students.
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UC Berkeley |

Could this new process finally turn polyethylene bags, plastics into something useful?

A promising new method for breaking down plastic would finally allow us to do something useful with hard-to-recycle waste.
Humpback whale feeding in Pacifica, California
UC Santa Barbara |

Setting up a ‘school zone’ for whales

Marine research and conservation institutions band together to expand whale-saving technology to the San Francisco Bay.
Pills tumbling from the air
UC San Diego |

Why are prescription drugs so expensive? It’s not necessarily high R&D, new study shows

Pharmaceutical companies claim they need to charge high drug prices to recover the costs of research and development, but researchers found no link between the two.
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Berkeley Lab via The Conversation |

Hurricane Ian: When the power grid goes out, could solar and batteries power your home?

A study of real-world disasters shows how home solar and storage could keep the lights on and the air conditioner running during many outages, if not all.
A 200-million-year-old long-snouted mouse-like animal, Morganucodon, which our common ancestor probably resembled
UC Davis |

Revealing the genome of the common ancestor of all mammals

Every modern mammal is descended from a common ancestor that lived about 180 million years ago. We don’t know a great deal about this animal, but the organization of its genome has now been computationally reconstructed by an international team of researchers.
From left to right, current Student Regent Marlenee Blas Pedral, Mary Tran, Student Regent-designate Merhawi Tesfai, William Carter and Deniss Martinez posing for photo in a conference room
UC Newsroom |

UC president recognizes foster youth students, celebrates outstanding student leadership

The inaugural Regents Foster Youth Award and an award for student leadership shine a light on the impact UC students are already having on the world.