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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 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 Merced |

Medical students reach out to create a healthier valley

A UC collaboration brings together future physicians to help underserved communities.
UC San Diego vessel biofuel
UC San Diego |

Ship voyages on 100 percent renewable biofuel for 1 year

A UC San Diego research vessel realizes UC's commitment to sustainability over 14,400 nautical miles.
UCLA treatment
UCLA |

Nursing student, cancer survivor draws on experience to help patients

A 2016 graduate from the UCLA School of Nursing pays it forward to others.
UC Davis Mariah Watson
UC Newsroom |

A pathbreaker with a passion to lead

UC Davis' first black female student body president advocates for minority issues while uniting students around shared concerns.
UC Riverside citrus safety
UC Riverside |

UC Riverside teams up with citrus industry to fight epidemic

A new building will allow scientists to expand citrus greening disease research.
FDR hero image UCLA
UCLA |

Professor’s ‘big intellectual risk’ grabs eyeballs years later

A UCLA professor's study of the New Deal continues to go viral - but does anyone fully understand it?
UC ANR |

Hackathon aims to solve real agriculture and food problems

Apps for Ag event July 15-17 to be hosted by UC ANR and California State Fair.
UC Berkeley healthier choices
UC Berkeley |

Our brain activity could be nudged to make healthier choices

UC Berkeley scientists capture the moment-to-moment dynamics of how we make decisions.
Stephen Maxey
UC Newsroom |

From a life on the streets to one advocating for the homeless

Stephen Maxey never saw himself as college material — but the community of UC Merced saw otherwise.
Kevin Hale UCLA
UCLA |

After kicking addiction, graduating UCLA student reboots life

Native American student finds way back to help others pursue higher education.
Scrub Jay UC Natural Reserve System
UC Natural Reserve System |

Rare scrub jay helps regrow oak forests

These Johnny Appleseeds are reversing ranching damage on Santa Cruz Island, UC scientists find.
UCSF doctor end of life
UC San Francisco |

Looking for a better way to die

Several experts at UCSF offer comment on the new California end-of-life law.