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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 Santa Cruz |

Male elephant seals use voice recognition to identify rivals

In competition for mates, males recognize the distinctive calls of their rivals and avoid costly fights by remembering who's dominant.
two-spot octopus
UC Berkeley |

Octopus genome reveals cephalopod secrets

Researchers are closer to discovering the genes involved in the creature’s ability to change skin color and texture, and to move its eight arms independently.
Pacific octopus stalks shrimp
UC Berkeley |

Octopus shows unique hunting, social and sexual behavior

They gather in groups, scare their prey, and get far more intimate than most other sea creatures.
UC Riverside |

Online health forums can be boon for underserved communities

Study finds forum use differs by gender, ethnicity and age.
Irvine students in community garden
UC Newsroom |

UC Irvine tops Sierra magazine’s green rankings 2nd-straight year

UC "dominates" rankings with five campuses among magazine's top 20 "Cool Schools" list of sustainable universities.
UCLA senior Claudia Varney leads a cooking class for children at the Venice Family Clinic in Culver City. Varney is one of 20 UCLA students enrolled in this summer's inaugural Food Studies and Food Justice class, funded by the UC Global Food Initiative.
UCLA |

Summer class offers plenty of food for thought and experiential learning

UCLA students learn about food justice and access to food.
Andrew John De Los Santos won the first Chancellor's Advisory Committee's Sustainability Proposal Writing Contest.
UC Merced |

Sustainability ideas lead to award-winning proposal

UC Merced student Andrew John De Los Santos' entry, “Continual Growth Toward Sustainability Education,” is a three-phase program aimed at increasing awareness of sustainability among undergraduates. 
A farming landscape can be co-managed for both produce safety and nature conservation. Promising practices include buffering farm fields with non-crop vegetation to filter pathogens from runoff and planting low-risk crops between leafy green vegetables an
UC Berkeley |

Clearing habitat surrounding farm fields fails to reduce pathogens

The effort to improve food safety by clearing wild vegetation surrounding crops is not helping, and in some cases may even backfire, according to a new study led by researchers at UC Berkeley.
UC Davis |

After California wildfires, southern plants shift north

With tree canopies burned away, recovering landscapes become home to transplants like manzanita and monkey flower.
Graduate students
UC San Diego |

Initiative assists graduate students for careers outside of academia

UC San Diego's Gradvantage seeks to prepare scholars for a range of jobs in a changing economy.
Precariously balanced rocks
UC Irvine |

Precariously balanced rocks provide clues to fault connections

San Jacinto, San Andreas interaction weakens earthquake shaking near them, study lead by UC Irvine finds.
UC Santa Cruz ecologist Barry Servino suspects a warming climate might give southern alligator lizards an edge over their northern cousins.
UC Santa Cruz |

Edges of extinction

UC Santa Cruz ecologist Barry Sinervo studies dying species like a detective at a murder scene, hoping to help preserve threatened species.