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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 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 Berkeley |

Berkeley-borne technology spreading faster than ever

Since Cal's tech-transfer office opened, more than 800 companies have sponsored research projects, investing important resources in many areas and resulting in significant patent and licensing fees.
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UC Irvine |

Titanium clubs can cause golf course fires

Sparks fly when head hits rocks in the rough, potentially igniting brush
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UC San Diego |

Lied-to children more likely to cheat and lie

When adults are dishonest with their offspring, the children mirror that behavior.
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UC Berkeley |

Fierce solar magnetic storm barely missed Earth in 2012

A rapid succession of coronal mass ejections – the most intense eruptions on the sun – sent a pulse of magnetized plasma barreling into space and through Earth’s orbit. Had it hit, it could have disrupted our increasingly electronic lives.
Jim Velzy and Ingrid Parker
UC Santa Cruz |

Bringing plant back from the brink of extinction

Experimental reintroductions are helping to establish new populations of a critically endangered wetland plant.
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UCLA |

Geographers create 'easy button' to calculate river flows from space

The frustrated attempts of a graduate student to quantify the amount of water draining from Greenland's melting ice sheet led him to devise a new way to measure river flows using satellite images.
UC Riverside |

Ancestry.com, UC Riverside partner to digitize historical newspapers

Historians, genealogists, rejoice: Partnership will bring millions of pages of historical California papers online.
BICEP2 and South Pole Telescope
UC San Diego |

Glimpse of Big Bang 'fingerprint'

Cosmologists detect curling patterns that appear to have resulted from the initial expansion of the universe.
UC Irvine |

Professor wins book award for Haiti memoir

Amy Wilentz is honored by the National Book Critics Circle.
Dave Wernick
UC Newsroom |

grad research day 2014

Grad students travel to Sacramento to share work vital to meeting the needs of the state and its citizens.
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography |

Long dry spells ahead

By century's end, some parts of the world will have as much as a month less rainfall.
UCLA |

Older adults: Build muscle and you'll live longer

New research suggests that it's greater muscle mass — not a good body mass index — that makes older Americans less likely to die prematurely.