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UC Newsroom |

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 Newsroom |

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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Taiko drumming
UC Riverside |

Music professor tapped for National Council on the Humanities

President Obama will nominate UC Riverside's Deborah Wong for the National Council on the Humanities.
Beer for Butterfly contest
UC Davis |

Don't miss the annual 'Beer for a Butterfly' contest

Be the first to catch a cabbage white butterfly as part of this UC Davis professor's study and win an unusual prize.
When poverty becomes disease
UCSF |

Poor health: when poverty becomes disease

UCSF doctors and researchers address the impact of poverty on health in research and practice.
Mentoring at UCSD
The Conversation |

At UC San Diego, retired professors are mentoring first-generation college students

UCSD's unique mentoring program provides benefits to retired professors and students alike.
UC Merced Hypercats Design Team
UC Merced |

Student team makes the cut in global ‘hyperloop’ competition

UC Merced student engineers invited to international transportation design competition.
Bay Area Carbon Emissions Map
UC Berkeley |

New interactive map compares carbon footprints of Bay Area neighborhoods

UC Berkeley helps produce a first-of-its-kind map to help neighborhoods reduce their carbon footprints.
Sustainable Los Angeles
UCLA |

Steps toward a sustainable golden age for Los Angeles proposed in new UCLA plan

Developing the plan involved more than two dozen faculty members from different disciplines across campus
UCLA Alzheimer's Research
UCLA |

Sounding the alarm on a future epidemic: Alzheimer's disease

UCLA biostatistics team forecasts prevalence of the disease under different circumstances
Jendi Samai
UCLA |

UCLA center helps community college students transfer

Center for Community College Partnerships guides students to UC and other four-year colleges.
Mother with baby and cellphone
UC Irvine |

Put the cellphone away! Fragmented baby care can affect brain development

UC Irvine study shows link between maternal infant-rearing and adolescent depression.
Statue of Liberty
UCLA |

UCLA prof helps capture immigrants' accounts of their first days in America

First Days Project website enables newcomers to share heartfelt recollections of arriving in the United States.
Element 117
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |

Livermore Laboratory credited with discovery of elements

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry confirms work of scientists for elements 115, 117 and 118, three of four that are being added to the periodic table.