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A tale of Tinder wins the day at the 10th annual UC Grad Slam

The hotly anticipated annual contest offered a peek at groundbreaking research powered by graduate students across the University of California system.

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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 Riverside mosquitoes
UC Newsroom |

UC startup lets you smell good to friends, gross to mosquitoes

Bloodsucking insects have met their match thanks to new research relying on FDA-approved compounds.
Gregory Barton and Meghan Koch identified antibodies in mouse milk.
UC Berkeley |

Breastfeeding is good for yet another reason, researchers discover

Breast milk antibodies interact with the just-forming immune system of a newborn to shape lifelong responses.
UC Global Food Initiative fellow Holly Mayton of UC Riverside spreads compost around a fruit tree during a field trip to Full Belly Farm in the Capay Valley.
UC Riverside |

UC Riverside graduate student to attend competitive program on food security

Forty students selected each year for U.S. Borlaug Summer Institute on Global Food Security.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |

We are not alone - there are germs in space, too

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is studying bacteria aboard the International Space Station.
UC Riverside bacteria
UC Riverside |

Exploiting male-killing bacteria to control insects

A UC Riverside scientist's discovery of a lethal, sex-specific mechanism may help manage pest species in the future.
UCLA |

Your brain on microbes

Learn about scientists' latest findings in UCLA Science and Food lecture.
UCLA reputation ranking
UC Newsroom |

UC campuses rank highly on world reputation list

Six UC schools are included in Times Higher Education's ranking of the 100 most prestigious universities.
UC Santa Cruz virtual reality
UC Santa Cruz |

Experiencing the 6-by-9 world of solitary confinement

The Guardian's virtual reality project with a UC Santa Cruz professor puts viewers inside a concrete cell.
Senior technician Eduardo Garcia, left, and lab manager Charlotte Acharya, both of the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences, prepare to place young strawberry plants in this field at UC Davis.
UC Davis |

Industry upbeat about new UC Davis strawberry breeding research

'Setting the benchmark' for quality, yield and sustainability.
UCLA poverty health study
UCLA |

Inadequate financial savings tied to childhood health risks

UCLA study finds wealth is a greater predictor than income for obesity and illness in kids.
Sesame Riverside
UC Riverside |

Children trust ‘smart’ characters on television

New UC Riverside study finds that figures viewed as clever help preschoolers model problem-solving behavior.
Prince Super Bowl UCLA
UCLA |

Prince’s first manager reflects on the early days

"We were a family," says UCLA Extension’s Owen Husney.