Three women posing with giant checks

Featured Story

UC Newsroom |

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.

A student researcher smiles in a lab coat around blue tubing

Featured Story

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.

List Grid
Community
Campuses & Locations
Categories
Grateful Dead
UC Newsroom |

Legacies live on in special collections

Collection of iconic band's materials is one of many rich archives entrusted to UC.
UCLA |

Schools in U.S. growing more separate, still unequal

Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, schools nationwide are becoming more segregated for African Americans and Latinos.
U.S. Marine
UC San Diego |

War and Peace (of mind)

Meditation training may help reduce stress disorders among U.S. military personnel.
preschoolers napping
UC Berkeley |

Hazardous flame retardants found in preschools, child care

Hazardous chemicals — some banned in furnishings for years — are widespread in indoor environments.
UC Newsroom |

UC aims to better serve community college transfers

Proposals seek to simplify and strengthen the pathway through which one in three undergraduates get to UC.
kiss
UCLA |

Brain's response to sexual images linked to number of partners

Understanding the brain's reaction may help scientists create interventions to reduce sensitivity and, in turn, tendency toward risky sexual behavior.
girl at water pump
UC Newsroom |

UC inventions on display at Tech Commercialization Forum

Research discoveries make the leap to commercial products — and fuel the state's economy.
hillside
UC Newsroom |

A thirst for knowledge

Attacking the drought from all perspectives — that’s the power of public.
Fig. 1 — bike renegades
Fig. 1 by University of California |

Renegades of bike culture

Today’s hipsters and their fixies are not the first to embody the too-cool-for-school persona of the cyclist.
UC San Diego |

Link between e-cigarettes and mental health

Persons with mental health conditions are found more likely to use nicotine-delivery devices.
woman smoking e-cigarette
UC San Francisco |

Study debunks health claims for e-cigarettes

Researchers urge same restrictions for e-cigarettes as the tobacco variety.
Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica
UC Irvine |

West Antarctic glacier loss appears unstoppable

The volume of melted ice enough is expected to raise sea level around the globe by 4 feet.