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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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UC Newsroom |

Meet 4 UC-trained nurses who are solving California’s biggest health care challenges

Nurses graduating from UC take on one of the biggest challenges facing our state: A shortage of clinicians that makes it too hard for too many people to get the medical care they need.

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UC Santa Cruz |

UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Coastal Climate Resilience awards over $4.6 million to support California coastal projects

The projects will support efforts to fight climate change in coastal communities across California and beyond. Funds for these grant programs came from the California State Budget Act of 2022-23.
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UCSF |

How a rare dementia transforms patients into artists

UCSF-led research reveals brain changes that promote visual creativity.
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UC Berkeley |

Water from thin air: Hand-held water harvester powered by sunlight could combat water scarcity

Researchers have designed an extreme-weather proven, hand-held device that can extract and convert water molecules from the air into drinkable water using only ambient sunlight as its energy source.
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UC Newsroom |

UC campuses best in nation for combining quality and affordability, Money says

Money magazine’s 2023 Best Colleges in America list finds all nine UC undergraduate campuses offer exceptional value.
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UC Riverside |

Widely consumed vegetable oil leads to an unhealthy gut

Diets high in soybean oil decrease endocannabinoids in the gut and can lead to colitis, a new study finds.
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UC San Francisco |

Why wait times in the emergency room are so long in California

The number of emergency departments has fallen, while demand for acute care has gone up.
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California Magazine |

Dacher Keltner is awe-inspired, and you should be too

After the death of his brother, the Berkeley psychologist found new meaning in life.
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UC Irvine |

Wake-up call

Researchers at UC Irvine’s Sleep and Cognition Lab dive deep in search of health-sleep links.
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UC San Diego |

New genetic technology developed to halt malaria-spreading mosquitoes

The first-of-its-kind African mosquito suppression system would reduce child mortality and aid economic development.
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UCLA |

What’s living beneath the waves in Southern California?

A UCLA study using environmental DNA provides the most comprehensive picture to date of wildlife in region’s surf zones.
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UC Berkeley |

State funds development of first-of-its-kind police misconduct database

California allocated $6.87 million in its 2023-24 budget to UC Berkeley to develop the Police Records Access Project, a first-of-its-kind, state-wide database of police misconduct and use-of-force records.
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UC San Diego |

One-two punch: Novel drug pairing could beat pancreatic cancer

UC San Diego researchers find a combination of drugs outperformed other treatments in human and mouse models of pancreatic cancer; now urge clinical trial.