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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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UC Santa Barbara via The Conversation |

How climate change is making California’s epic drought worse

Studies suggest that climate change might give rise to a new climate regime, one in which the years of low precipitation will be accompanied by warm conditions.
Professor Ken Hiltner, UCSB's Sustainability Champion for 2014-2015, and a group of his students toured Goleta-based Fairview Gardens as part of his course “The Rhetoric of the Anthropocene and Climate Change.”
UC Santa Barbara |

A champion for sustainability

Professor Ken Hiltner, UC Santa Barbara's current Sustainability Champion, is spearheading the campus's Environmental Humanities Initaitive, aiming to engage faculty and students of all disciplines.
dried body of water
ANR via The Conversation |

California’s water paradox: why enough will never be enough

We are a land-rich but water-limited state, and increased supply leads to more demand.
UCLA |

Alcoholism drug appears to work for meth addiction

Researchers testing effectiveness of Naltrexone: 'Results were about as good as you could hope for.'
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UC Irvine |

Awe promotes altruistic behavior

The sense of something greater than the self encourages cooperative behavior.
UC Newsroom |

UC to Congress: Federal financial aid helps keep college affordable

Pell Grants and federal student loans are vital to UC’s success in enrolling and graduating significant numbers of low-income and first-generation students.
Monica Banda, a farmer in Zambia, stands in the middle of a field she planted. The field on the left is also hers but was planted using traditional techniques and seed. The fields on the right is a Zasaka field. Banda’s yield increased by two times after
UC Davis |

'Farmer-preneurs' improve crops in Southern Africa

A team of UC Davis grads, students and Zambian colleagues has built a company around simple technologies and practices that aid farmers in avoiding losses and growing more crops.
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UC San Francisco |

Women with dense breasts may not need more screening

Routine mammograms will suffice for many women unless they are at high risk of developing cancer.
pregnant woman
UC Riverside |

Moms' obesity compromises babies’ immune system at birth

Study reveals potential links between changes in a baby’s immune system and increased susceptibility and occurrence of diseases later in life.
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UCLA |

Neuroscience helps explain American households’ $12 trillion debt

Op-ed: Psychiatrist explains how consumerist culture has warped Americans’ brains into reckless spending.
Jeff Dahlberg, director of the UC Kearney Research and Extension Center, with the time capsule that will be buried May 26.
ANR |

UC scientists to bury time capsule with letters to successors

Project part of May 26 celebration to commemorate 50th anniversary of UC Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Parlier.
HIV microclinic in Kenya
UC San Francisco |

Microclinics help keep Kenyan HIV patients in care

Activating patients’ existing social networks helps reduce the stigma of the disease.