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A tale of Tinder wins the day at the 10th annual UC Grad Slam

The hotly anticipated annual contest offered a peek at groundbreaking research powered by graduate students across the University of California system.

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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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Lizbeth Nunez UC Berkeley
UC Newsroom |

Farmworker’s daughter looks to a future in brain science

Undocumented student Lizbeth Nuñez arrives at UC Berkeley to advance neurobiology — and honor her mother's sacrifices.
UC Merced rankings
UC Newsroom |

6 UC campuses named among the nation’s top 10 public universities

UC system excels in the new 2017 U.S. News and World Report rankings.
UC Davis Student Farm Director Mark Van Horn and some of his students last year, from left, Alexis Fujii, Mary Laurie and Abraham Cazares.
UC Newsroom |

Student farming takes root

UC Davis Student Farm Director Mark Van Horn offers insights.
UCSF sugar spoon
UC San Francisco |

UCSF reveals how sugar industry influenced national conversation on heart disease

Documents show how trade organizations deflected scientific attention from sucrose to saturated fat.
UC Davis colon cancer
UC Davis |

14 new startups based on technologies developed at UC Davis

Learn about the record-tying number of ventures launched from UC Davis this fiscal year.
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California HIV/AIDS Research Program and APLA Health |

Study finds barriers to accessing HIV prevention pill

Significant disparities found in PrEP awareness, use among young gay and bisexual men in California.
UC Santa Cruz Julie Snyder
UC Santa Cruz |

Julie Snyder: Serially great journalism

The UC Santa Cruz alumna talks her hit podcast 'Serial' and getting her start on college radio.
Chloe Anderson UC Santa Cruz
UC Newsroom |

New UC Santa Cruz student challenges assumptions about transgender athletes

Chloe Psyche Anderson is ready to experience what the university and Division III volleyball have to offer.
Johnese Spisso has devoted her career to building world-class health care organizations. Now she brings her talent and abundant energy to help guide UCLA Health toward greater achievement.
UCLA |

UCLA Hospital System CEO on raising the bar

Q&A with Johnese Spisso.
A group of UC Davis students is breeding a “jalapeño popper,” a cross between a bell pepper and a jalapeño pepper. Two members of the team, Randi Jimenez and Wengyuan Xiao, examine their crop at the Student Farm.
UC Davis |

Students breeding a better organic popper pepper

UC Davis student-run project has become a model for other programs.
Ford Fusion UC Riverside
UC Riverside |

The perfect car, according to science

A new study shows how the aesthetic design of U.S. auto models affects consumer preferences.
UC Riverside bacteria wild bees
UC Riverside |

Flowers critical link to bacteria transmission in wild bees

Research shows for the first time that multiple flower and wild bee species share several of the same types of bacteria.