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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 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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Eric Ederer plays the oud
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Echoes of the Ottoman Empire

UC Santa Barbara Library acquires a sizable collection of classical Turkish music recorded from the early to mid-20th century.
UC Davis researchers have uncovered important genetic clues about the pathogen that causes grape powdery mildew, among the most destructive vineyard pest throughout California and the world.
UC Davis |

Fighting powdery mildew on grapes

A discovery by UC Davis researchers is helping combat costly grape powdery mildew damage.
UCLA |

FDA approves new breast cancer drug

UCLA research played key role in development of Ibrance, targeting estrogen-receptor–positive breast cancer.
Cameron Carter, Christopher Giza and Bruce Miller
UC San Francisco |

UCSF’s Bruce Miller urges Congress to fund brain research

Funding support provided by the National Institutes of Health remains crucial to finding treatments for neurodegenerative diseases.
UC Davis/Mars symposium
UC Davis |

Videos available from UC Davis/Mars symposium on innovation in food and health

Symposium marks launch of the Innovation Institute for Food and Health.
UC Irvine's Mathew Blurton-Jones is one of 10 UC recipients in the latest round of grants from the state's stem cell agency.
UC Newsroom |

UC researchers awarded $15M in stem cell grants

Ten recipients from six UC campuses receive awards to pursue new technologies intended to accelerate advances moving stem cell therapies out of the lab and into the clinic.
Barbara Allen-Diaz receives Frederick G. Renner Award. From left, Amy Ganguli, David Diaz, Allen-Diaz, Fee Busby and Maria Fernandez-Gimenez.
ANR |

ANR VP honored by range management professionals

Barbara Allen-Diaz is the first female member to receive the Society for Range Management's highest honor.
Steven Leahy
Lawrence Livermore Lab |

California employers train service members for advanced manufacturing jobs

Labs, academia, government agencies and nonprofits are joining forces to to develop a pipeline to help service members and vets develop highly specialized skills.
pika (via Wikimedia Commons)
UC Santa Cruz |

Shrinking range of pikas in California mountains linked to climate change

Study documents disappearance of pikas from low-elevation sites and shows how ongoing global warming will further restrict their range in the future.
Martin Vela-Sanchez and Danny Murillo
UC Berkeley |

Underground scholars reverse school-to-prison pipeline

Those who have done time in jail or prison face unique challenges as college scholars at UC Berkeley. Through their campus organization ‘Underground Scholars,’ formerly incarcerated students work to beat the odds and change the system.
Sistine Chapel
UC Berkeley |

Add nature, art and religion to life’s best anti-inflammatories

Taking in such spine-tingling wonders as the Grand Canyon, Sistine Chapel ceiling or Schubert’s “Ave Maria” may give a boost to the body’s defense system.
Hopkins' rose nudibranch
UC Santa Barbara and UC Santa Cruz |

Roses bloom in tide pools

Bright pink, inch-long sea slugs have shown up in the highest numbers and northernmost locations reported since the El Niños of 1998 and 1983.