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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 Berkeley Steve Jobs
UC Berkeley |

What kind of personalities start entrepreneurial empires?

Find out how a founder's personality powers startup growth.
UC Santa Cruz Man in the High Castle
UC Santa Cruz |

'Be so good they can’t ignore you'

Alum Kalen Egan produces Amazon’s 'The Man in the High Castle' thanks to hard work and creative drive.
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UC San Diego |

Researchers find computer code that Volkswagen used to cheat emissions tests

Computer scientist uncovers the smoking gun from 2015's scandal.
Church by the Side of the Road
UC Newsroom |

Awakening a social giant in the effort to fight climate change

Van Jones is perhaps best known today as a political commentator for CNN, but he hasn’t given up his green credentials. The nonprofit he founded, Green for All, works to bring environmental solutions to the people that are most directly affected:…
UC Irvine HSI
UC Irvine |

UC Irvine named a Hispanic-serving institution

Latino enrollment reaches 25.7 percent, surpassing Department of Education benchmarks.
Tomato varieties UC Davis
UC Davis |

7 challenges for achieving global food security

UC Davis’ Helene Dillard leads the charge for more sustainable, equitable food systems.
UC Riverside Dickinsonia
UC Riverside |

Study of Earth's first animals broadens understanding of early evolution

Secrets of early life hide within one of the oldest fossil animals, Dickinsonia.
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UC Santa Barbara |

A leap for 3-D printing

Tresa Pollock receives a $3M fellowship to develop a platform for printing with new extreme-use materials.
UC Davis Synestia
UC Davis |

Something new in the stars

There's a new type of planetary object in town — a synestia.
UC Merced AIDS march
UC Merced |

UC Merced Library chosen to digitize AIDS historical archives

Effort will make hundreds of thousands of pages available to the global public.
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UCLA |

UC collaboration unlocks a key to biofuel

The algae in your fishtank could provide new fuel and medical applications, thanks to its UC-decoded genome.
Natalie Clara UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley |

Student mom Natalie Ruiz achieves her Berkeley dream, and shines

Two majors, a baby, pancreatic surgery, award-winning work and a career path are just part of the journey for this grad.