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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.

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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 Merced students
UC Newsroom |

The next Silicon Valley?

How UC Merced undergrads are solving real-life problems, from BART escalators to the disappearing monarch butterfly.
UC Newsroom |

Words of wisdom from commencement speeches

9 of UC's most compelling speakers, from Alfred Hitchcock to Michelle Obama.
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UCLA via The Conversation |

A hangover pill? Tests on drunk mice show promise

A new pill may lower blood alcohol levels, helping a hangover and preventing alcohol overdose deaths.
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UC Merced |

Grad student's passion for Prince fuels research

Dig if you will, a picture: the chance to study the legendary musician as a subject of academic research.
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UC Newsroom |

UC grad students bring ingenuity to the fore at Grad Slam

10 campus finalists thrill by distilling years of research into three-minute talks on topics from synesthesia to ‘mansand.’
UC San Diego hippos zoo
UC San Diego |

A drug lord and the world’s largest invasive animal

A zoo built by Pablo Escobar gives biologists a rare chance to study the impact of hippos gone rogue.
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UC San Diego and San Diego Blood Bank |

Be one in a million: Massive $1.5B precision medicine research effort kicks off

UC Irvine and UC San Diego are state co-leads of an unprecedented project to gather medical data for new cures.
UC Newsroom |

How students helped end apartheid

A small gesture of solidarity by students led to a national movement with far-reaching impact.
UC students visit DC
UC Newsroom |

UC students pay it forward for the next generation

UC Student Association members visit Washington to fight for policies that will expand access to college.
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UCSF |

Frances McDormand headlines performance that sparks dialogue on sudden death

Thousands of years after its first performance, Sophocles’ ‘Ajax’ remains a source of catharsis, the UCSF community finds.
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UC Santa Barbara |

‘A space of freedom’

A unique correspondence course brings study of the humanities to incarcerated adults.
UC San Diego mammoth
UC San Diego |

Should we bring back the Woolly Mammoth?

Scientists are getting closer to bringing big animals, and big questions, to life.