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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 Merced professor Clarissa Nobile (left) works on biofilm research.
UC Merced |

Research breakthrough could help diagnose, treat biofilm infections

UC Merced professor is on cutting edge of new field of research.
UC Irvine first-generation faculty
UC Irvine |

First-generation faculty welcome UC freshmen

Professors who were once first-generation students themselves show what's possible for UC students.
UCLA mindfulness kids
UCLA |

Mindfulness helps children as young as 3 manage their emotions during school

An innovative new program is helping students deal with stress and focus on schoolwork.
UC Riverside inclusion works
UC Riverside |

Disabilities, hidden or not, bring benefits to a workplace

UC Riverside celebrates National Disability Employment Awareness Month in October by showing that '#InclusionWorks.'
UC Pell Grants
UC Newsroom |

Students and UC leaders urge Congress to restore year-round Pell Grants

UC pushes for extended aid in the federal spending bill in order to help students graduate faster and at a lower cost.
Zulmira T. (left) watches as her son Kobe B. (yellow shirt) expresses his delight in seeing Dr. Emma Simmons. Alfonso Guzman, a licensed vocation nurse assigned to Kobe B., is seen on the right.
UC Riverside |

Providing access

Clinic offers top quality health care to developmentally disabled adults and much relief for their families.
UC Berkeley gasoline
UC Berkeley via The Conversation |

Addicted to oil: US gasoline consumption is higher than ever

Many people thought U.S. gasoline consumption had already peaked. They were wrong. What happened?
Quinonez MacArthur
UC Newsroom |

4 UC alums win MacArthur 'genius' grants

The prestigious awards will support their creative endeavors in the arts and sciences over the next four years.
An Asian citrus psyllid nymph.
UC Riverside |

Summit to focus on devastating citrus disease

UC Riverside will host summit Oct. 4 and 5 to discuss research on citrus greening disease.
Ecologist Chelsea Rochman found plastic and fibrous debris in 25 percent of the fish sold in Indonesian and California markets.
UC Newsroom |

How plastic winds up in our seafood and what you can do about it

The surprising ways that you may be contributing to plastic pollution.
UC Times Higher Education rankings
UC Newsroom |

UC system at the top of the world in new rankings

Times Higher Education rates eight UC campuses among the globe's best, with UC Berkeley in the top 10.
UC Davis VW
UC Davis |

Volkswagen scandal fundamentally changed financial markets

Where the car company suffered the small investor now benefits, a new study finds.