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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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This year's class of UC Global Food Initiative student fellows includes returning fellows (left) Hannah Malan of UCLA and Holly Mayton of UC Riverside, who participated last spring in a GFI fellows' field trip to Full Belly Farm in the Capay Valley.
UC Newsroom |

Student fellows help shape future of food

This year's class of 55 UC Global Food Initiative student fellows includes 14 returnees.
Middle School Moguls
UC Newsroom |

Guise and dolls

A UC Irvine entrepreneur disrupts stereotypes and the toy market with a new line of dolls.
Berkeley Lab smallest transistor
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |

Smallest transistor ever made by Berkeley Lab

Berkeley Lab-led research breaks major barrier in transistor size by creating gate only 1 nanometer long.
FAFSA UC
UC Newsroom |

Applying to college? Don’t make this costly mistake

How California families can make sure they don't miss out on billions in financial aid.
Jianwei "John" Miao, UCLA
UC Berkeley and UCLA |

UC campuses to partner on $24 million imaging science center

UC Berkeley and UCLA will help lead the new center to improve imaging technology; UC Irvine also will participate.
Mayan city UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Barbara |

Unearthing an ancient city

A modern-day Indiana Jones works to preserve the legacy of a Mayan city in a new film.
The winning team in the UC World Food Day Video Challenge: (From left) Umayr Sufi, Irwin Donis-Gonzalez and Carlos Orozco-Gonzalez.
UC Davis |

Rising to the challenge: World Food Day video prizes awarded

Top prizes in UC-wide competition go to UC Davis students.
An invasive female oyster drill and her eggs attach to a native Olympia oyster in Tomales Bay.
UC Davis |

Climate change may benefit native oysters, but there's a catch

Oysters can tolerate extremes better than predatory snails can -- if the snails don't get them first.
Angela Courtney
UC Newsroom |

Advances in breast cancer research and treatment bring hope

From detection to treatment, UC researchers are taking aim at breast cancer.
UC Berkeley and UC Davis |

Combating antibiotic resistance

UC Berkeley, UC Davis projects among those funded by CDC in effort to preserve the power of antibiotics.
UC Berkeley water startup
California Magazine |

Startup helps people find out what they’re drinking

A UC Berkeley team provides much needed oversight of the largest unchecked threat to water safety.
UC Riverside window to the brain
UC Riverside |

International ‘Window to the Brain’ research team gathers at UC Riverside

Scientists from the U.S. and Mexico are working to make their therapeutic transparent skull implant a reality for patients with brain disorders.