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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 Davis human fossil
UC Davis |

Scientist helps excavate oldest-known human fossils — and their dinner

Discovery of 300,000-year-old human ancestors pushes back our origins by 100,000 years.
UC Irvine small waves
UC Irvine |

Small climb in mean temperatures linked to far higher chance of deadly heat waves

UC Irvine-led analysis of data from India could have dire implications for the future.
UC Berkeley Nesbet Award
UC Berkeley |

Walls, spies, East Berlin and the California Book Award

Anne Nesbet's historical novel “Cloud and Wallfish” claims the gold medal in juvenile fiction.
UCSF Haight Ashbury Free Clinic
UCSF |

Born in the Summer of Love: The Haight Ashbury Free Clinic transformed drug addiction treatment

Famed clinic celebrates its 50th anniversary.
Jesse Abrams UC Santa Cruz Freedom Coalition
UC Newsroom |

From student to modern-day abolitionist

UC Santa Cruz organization founded and run by students helps free slave laborers.
UC San Diego VR glove
UC San Diego |

Play piano with this virtual reality glove

It's a leap forward with potential applications that are even more dazzling.
UCSF man bicycle
UCSF |

Bicycling's huge costs in America

Billion-dollar toll from injuries suggests a need for safer infrastructure.
UC Riverside Mellon Mays
UC Riverside |

UC Riverside’s first student cohort of Mellon Mays fellows to graduate

Program helps diversify faculty and research by mentoring undergrads.
UCLA galapagos cormorant
UCLA |

How the Galapagos cormorant lost its ability to fly

Analyzing one of Darwin's favorite birds, a research team finds the genetic changes that clipped the bird's wings.
UC Santa Cruz DNA tether
UC Santa Cruz |

Rescuing damaged chromosomes

The discovery of a 'Hail Mary' mechanism for saving damaged cells could lead to new strategies to fight cancer.
UC San Diego climate change
UC San Diego |

How climate change makes us all lose sleep

Millions of nights of insufficent sleep could be created by rising temperatures, study says.
UC Berkeley puberty brain
UC Berkeley |

Science shows for the first time how puberty makes learning harder

Parents who think a switch is flipped: read this.