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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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Meet 4 UC-trained nurses who are solving California’s biggest health care challenges

Nurses graduating from UC take on one of the biggest challenges facing our state: A shortage of clinicians that makes it too hard for too many people to get the medical care they need.

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UCLA |

Engineer wins 2016 UCLA Grad Slam to move onto UC-wide finals

Graduate student will represent the campus at systemwide competition of three-minute, TED-talks style presentations of research.
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UC Irvine |

UC Irvine alums approach the goal of fusion power

Their experimental reactor may be the most viable avenue yet to a limitless, carbon-neutral energy source.
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UC President Napolitano urges congressional support for university priorities

In a Feb. 24 letter to the California delegation, Napolitano outlined the university’s federal fiscal year 2017 appropriations priorities.
Maritza Cardenas
UC Berkeley |

Teen girls see big drop in chemical exposure with switch in cosmetics

A UC Berkeley study finds that using personal care products free of hormone disruptors makes a difference.
UCLA women in tech
UCLA |

A road map for advancing women in tech

New report by UCLA Luskin Center provides strategies for reducing inequality.
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Invasive superweed is target of new nationwide research effort

UC Cooperative Extension's Jeff Dahlberg part of team finding new ways to combat Johnsongrass.
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UC Berkeley |

Handel scholar discovers new cantata by a Baroque master

A UC Berkeley professor investigates an old manuscript and finds a new composition, to be conducted this spring.
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Five things you should know about the new SAT

The class of 2017 will include the first high-schoolers to take the revised college entrance exam.
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UC San Diego |

Aircraft cruise atmospheric rivers to improve West Coast storm predictions

UC San Diego scientists take to the skies with a new method to make weather forecasts more accurate.
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UC Berkeley |

Bromances may be good for men’s health

UC Berkeley study of rats shows that stress can bring males together, findings that also have implications for post-traumatic stress disorder.
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UC Santa Barbara |

Do we have free will?

A study by UC Santa Barbara psychologists explores how a compromised belief in free will corrupts intuitive cooperation.
Amy Rowat teaches a popular UCLA course called “The Physical and Molecular Origins of What We Eat.”
UCLA |

Explore the future of food

UCLA's popular 'Science and Food' events return for fourth year, starting March 8.