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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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Budding neuroscientist building app

As undergraduates, identical twins Jon and Stan Schor teamed together at Caltech, serving as co-editors of the student newspaper and participating in the same three sports — track, fencing and cross country. Jon Schor
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Inspiring healthy habits

Every week for the past four years, Sanna Alas has volunteered at Jordan High, an underserved school in Watts, as part of UCLA’s Mentors for Academic and Peer Support program. Sanna Alas
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Modeling environmental impacts of agriculture

Ankita Raturi is a model student for the UC Global Food Initiative. Ankita Raturi Credit: Roger J. Wyan The UC Irvine graduate student in informatics has a different take on applying technology to agriculture: Her Global Food Initiative fellowship project…
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Food waste powers project

Ryan Dowdy’s creative juices began flowing as a young child in Alabama. Instead of starting a lemonade stand, he mixed oil, water and food coloring and then sold jars filled with the concoction to his neighbors for 50 cents apiece. Ryan Dowdy Now he is…
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3D-printed ‘smart cap’ uses electronics to detect spoiled food

Consumers soon may be able to hit “print” to create an electronic circuit or wireless sensor in the comfort of their homes.
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Getting to the root of food issues

Jacqueline Chang grew up in a Southern California suburb and never went camping as a child. So when she toured the Masumoto family’s 80-acre organic farm near Fresno in April with other UC Global Food Initiative student fellows, she was thrilled.…
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Investor joins in $100M search for extraterrestrial intelligence

Breakthrough Prize founder Yuri Milner joins 10-year commitment to ramp up SETI.
UC medical centers are collaborating to increase efficiencies in supply chain, revenue cycle, clinical laboratories and information technology.
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UC Health initiative cuts costs, improves quality

Program saved $70 million in first year, aims to save at least $150 million a year in coming years.
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Ultra-low-cost solution to a big water problem

Blum Center contest winner aims to remove excess fluoride from drinking water.
UC President Janet Napolitano listens to UC Global Food Initiative student fellows discuss their projects April 20 at Masumoto Family Farm in Del Rey.
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Student fellows to unite at symposium

Several dozen student fellows representing two of UC President Janet Napolitano’s initiatives — carbon neutrality and global food — will join together at a symposium July 20 in San Francisco.
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Students head for frontlines of Palestinian-Israeli conflict

Participants journey with the Olive Tree Initiative, a UC-based organization that promotes understanding through immersion in the history, culture and complexities of the conflict.
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Mountain lions' mortal enemy: man

In Southern California, the biggest single threat to the animals' survival is Homo sapiens.