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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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Bill Drummond and San Quentin inmates
California Magazine |

The prof and the cons

How Bill Drummond lost his faith in journalism — and reclaimed it behind bars, with inmates at San Quentin.
EGS-zs8-1 galaxy
UC Santa Cruz |

Astronomers set a new distance record for galaxies

Astronomers discover a bright galaxy more than 13 billion light years from Earth — the most distant known, dating back to when the universe was just 5 percent of its current age.
Sean Riley and P-32 as a cub
UCLA |

Behind the scenes with a Los Angeles mountain lion expert

Seth Riley, who teaches at UCLA and works for the National Park Service, has tracked 40 mountain lions living in the Santa Monica Mountains.
A thick tangle of the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans (purple) that causes white-nose syndrome in bats is shown here growing on mouse body hair.
UC San Francisco |

Breakthrough in bat-killing fungus could aid crops

UCSF-Brown discovery could help combat fungus that threatens North American bats and poses threat to the agricultural industry.
doctor holding iPad and medicine bottle
UC Merced |

A more secure cloud for mobile users

Encryption system allows smartphone and tablet users to store data in one or multiple clouds without using a lot of a mobile device’s resources.
UC Davis |

Program targets next generation of physicians to advance Latino health

Prep Médico will provide scholarships, mentorship and internship opportunities, intensive language training and more, to expand diversity in medicine.
Co-founder Rafid Sikder and Senior Director of Dining Services David Henry
UC Riverside |

Feeding the needy, one swipe at a time

UC Riverside's Swipes for the Homeless chapter donates $5,000 worth of food to charity.
Trees killed by sudden oak death
UC Berkeley |

Citizen science helps predict spread of sudden oak death

Efforts to predict the emergence and spread of sudden oak death, an infectious disease that kills oaks and other trees, have gotten a big boost from the work of grassroots volunteers.
UC Irvine |

Extended space travel may warp astronauts' brains

Worrisome news for potential missions to Mars: Long-term galactic cosmic ray exposure can cause permanent dementia-like cognitive impairments.
UC Riverside grad students Vicente Nunez and Jessica Diaz, along with graduate dean Joseph Childers, chatted with state Assemblyman Jose Medina about the nature of their research.
UC Newsroom |

Grad students bring their 'secret sauce' to Sacramento

UC’s emerging scientists and scholars share innovation, expertise.
Fisheries need to improve sustainable practices before doing business on global seafood market.
UC Davis |

Sustainability progress should precede seafood market access, researchers urge

A team of UC Davis-led researchers finds that fishery improvement projects need to be fine tuned to ensure that fisheries are delivering on their promises.
A display of healthy foods.
UC Riverside |

Seeds of change

Free public talk at UC Riverside, part of UC Global Food Initiative lecture series, to discuss the campus' sustainable food efforts.