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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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Gaurav Sant, a UCLA professor of civil and environmental engineering and materials science and engineering.
UC Newsroom |

The University of California ranks No. 1 in higher education for U.S. patents

Researchers across the UC system produce, on average, five new discoveries each day.
A doctor looking at a patient's ultrasound while the patient reclines nearby
UCSF |

There’s a more humane way to monitor Crohn’s and colitis patients

UCSF Health pioneers ultrasound in western U.S. for adults with bowel disease.
An older adult painting, hand on leaf decorative painting pictured
UC Riverside |

Older adults may achieve same cognition as undergrads

Learning multiple tasks led to cognition improvements that got better with the passage of time.
Harmonia Rosales, Birth of Oshun, detail, 2017, oil on canvas. Reminiscent of the famous Botticelli painting of a woman in a clamshell, The Birth of Venus
UC Santa Barbara |

Harmonia Rosales recasts the Renaissance with West African tales from the same period

An exhibition of paintings that draw subject matter from the transatlantic slave trade and Yorùbá myths, originated at UC Santa Barbara, will soon visit Spelman College, an Historically Black College.
Collage of a woman holding a sign that says Equal Rights with other signs and fists held up below her
UCLA |

A call to action, answered

After the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, the state wanted a partner that could help women across the country secure their reproductive freedom. Naturally, it turned to UCLA.
Steve Monfort and Breezy Jackson at Yosemite
UC Newsroom |

UC’s wild, wonderful natural reserves

Steve Monfort, executive director of the UC Natural Reserve System, shares why biodiversity is the key to our future and how UC’s reserves are its best-kept secret.
Annie the peregrine falcon looking at her eggs
UC Newsroom |

How UC research is ensuring a future for 10 iconic animals

Bringing species back — and keeping them away — from the brink.
A container ship with a humpback breaching in front of it, outlined in orange
UC Newsroom |

The world’s largest-ever animals need our help. A new tool will help keep them safe

The future for California's whales is brighter thanks to Whale Safe.
Jill Banfield (left) and Jennifer Doudna (right) in the IGI Building at UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley |

IGI’s ‘Audacious’ New Frontier for CRISPR: Editing Microbiomes for Climate and Health

$70M in funding will catalyze a new initiative led by Jennifer Doudna and Jill Banfield to apply precision genome editing to microbial communities.
Lake Tahoe in winter with a block of ice in the forefront
UC Davis |

Lake Tahoe’s clarity the best it’s been since 1980s

The return of native zooplankton aided Tahoe clarity efforts in 2022.
A diverse group of happy children on a playground
UC Riverside |

One of every six autistic children are expelled from daycare

Average age of rejected children was only 3.3 years old, survey found.
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UC San Diego |

Commercial-scale biomanufactured melatonin is here

A series of fundamental advances made by UC San Diego bioengineers is accelerating the promising field of biomanufacturing.