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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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Brenda Martinez Olympics UC
UC Newsroom |

UC Olympians go for the gold

A total of 102 athletes, coaches and staff from eight UC campuses will take part in the Summer Olympics.
UCLA's Thomas Coates has been named director of the UC Global Health Institute.
UC Global Health Institute |

UC Global Health Institute names new leadership team

UCLA's Thomas Coates named director; UCSF's Craig Cohen, UC Davis' Patricia Conrad named co-directors.
Berkeley Lab e-cig study
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab |

Why toxic compound emissions vary in e-cigarettes

Researchers also identify two carcinogens not previously reported in vapor.
UC Davis Helps Empower Those Tackling Africa's Energy Challenges
UC Davis |

UC Davis helps empower those tackling Africa's energy challenges

Young African leaders are leveraging campus expertise to develop zero-net energy solutions for their nations.
Great works of art can remind students the brain is the home of memory, emotions and sometimes devastating illness.
UCLA |

Literature and film help teach students to understand the brain

Course combining anatomy, history and humanities provides interdisciplinary approach to studying neuroscience.
UC Berkeley |

With rise of leukemia in children, $6M grant funds search for causes

Researchers will build upon recent success linking risk of getting childhood leukemia to environmental exposures.
Francis Ford Coppola UCLA
UCLA |

Francis Ford Coppola tests concept of live movie-making with UCLA students, faculty

Award-winning director and alum workshops an innovative filmic technique.
UC Berkeley air conditioning
UC Berkeley via The Conversation |

The global impact of air conditioning: Big and getting bigger

Rising incomes and temperatures increase the amount of cooling units — and greenhouse gases.
UC Irvine spit lab
UC Irvine |

Spit: The diagnostic tool of the future?

A UC Irvine alum brings home his research on the health- and behavior-revealing properties of saliva.
UC San Francisco |

California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine announces new funding opportunity

Up to six projects will demonstrate the potential of precision medicine to help patients.
Pacific Ocean at Scripps
UC San Diego |

Researchers can now monitor global warming due to human activity in real time

Scientists find the human impact on global warming can be distinguished from natural variability.
UC Berkeley |

The secret history of America on Medium

A professor challenges students to share alternative stories of life in America.