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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 |

New UC Davis art museum welcomes thousands

Standing outside the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, as hundreds of people streamed inside on Sunday (Nov. 13), Rachel Teagle talked — and teared up — not about the grand opening ceremony that had just occurred at noon, but about what had…
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UC San Francisco |

UCSF, Governor Brown announce new precision medicine projects

Six projects selected to harness power of advanced computing to better treat and prevent disease.
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UC Natural Reserve System |

UC president tours Bodega Marine Lab and Reserve

The premier site for research in northern California celebrates its 50th anniversary.
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UC President Napolitano and the 10 UC chancellors urge support for passage of Cures/Innovation legislation

Investment in National Institutes of Health research and innovation is vital to acclerating health treatments and cures for all Americans.
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UC Merced |

Grad student’s water-mapping work leads to national recognition

Using big data to streamline water planning and fight climate change.
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UCLA |

Childhood infections provide lifelong protection against certain flu viruses

UCLA researchers explain that birth year may largely determine people’s risk for serious illness in an influenza pandemic.
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UC Newsroom |

Honoring the nation’s military veterans

UC offers a special thank you this week on every campus to military personnel for their service.
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UC Riverside |

Breaking the mold with a full-figured princess

Professor's book series tells new stories while diversifying children's media.
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UC San Diego |

Engineers develop new self-healing magnetic ink

Advance will help repair 3-D printed devices in record time.
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UC Irvine |

Veteran among first-generation mentors

New programs guide a changing student population to success.
Some species of seabirds, including blue petrels, are particularly vulnerable to eating plastic debris at sea.
UC Davis |

Why do seabirds eat plastic? The answer stinks

Marine plastic debris is an olfactory trap for seabirds.
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Investing in a new generation of women entrepreneurs

UC women are hunting down the vast untapped economic opportunity of women entrepreneurship.