Serving nine UC campuses and two national laboratories, Lick Observatory continues to be at the forefront of groundbreaking discoveries and innovation, training the next generation of astronomers and astrophysicists.

The University of California today (April 24) announced the 2025 cohort of UC President’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellows, 42 outstanding young scientists and economists from across the UC system who will join Nobel laureates from around the world at two renowned scholarly gatherings in Lindau, Germany.

This Earth Day, we’re celebrating stories from the past year of UC research that illustrate the resilience of life on our planet.

A UC Davis study found that data from iNaturalist and eBird can reliably capture known seasonal patterns of bird migration in Northern California and Nevada.

Get a master class — in brief — on cutting-edge UC discoveries as graduate students explain their complex research in just 3 minutes flat.

“Funding medical research is about more than just numbers. It's real people,” says Ryan Manriquez, president of the UC Graduate and Professional Council.

This year’s Match Day saw 748 UC medical students match into residency programs and welcome the momentous next step of their careers.

The debate over human uniqueness is shifting as data has emerged suggesting that other animals can also generate cultural complexity through social learning.

University of California President Michael V. Drake, M.D., today (Feb. 27) issued the following statement on the re-introduction of the American Dream and Promise Act.

“The only way to beat ignorance is through education,” said one of the students in the Robinson International Scholars Program, which supports students from sub-Saharan Africa.

UC Davis is given the highest marks in the country by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for its effective actions that foster an inclusive, creative, and supportive STEMM environment.

Each UC campus now resides among the exclusive group of 187 accredited doctoral-granting universities in the United States designated R1 by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.