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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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Harris Lewin, UC Davis
UC Davis |

UC Davis plans joint research with Brazil

FAPESP, the São Paulo Research Foundation and UC Davis announced launch of new program to strengthen collaborative research in physical sciences, engineering, biomedical sciences and agriculture.
Fresh produce is among the healthy, organic items available at the food pantry, which is open Thursday of finals week from noon to 4 p.m.
UC Berkeley |

Campus partnership addresses student food security

UC Berkeley's Food Security Committee has assembled a toolkit of resources — from a food pantry to emergency funds to tips on cooking on a budget — to help ensure that no student goes hungry.
Phil Berman
UC Santa Cruz |

Persistence yields progress in AIDS vaccine research

Veteran researcher has developed a new approach based on an old vaccine and recent advances in HIV immunology.
UC Davis |

UC Davis-Mars Inc. team advances to finals of FDA Food Safety Challenge

The finalists were selected for potential breakthrough ideas on how to find disease-causing organisms in food – especially salmonella in fresh, minimally processed produce.
adults lifting weights
UC Berkeley |

Drug perks up old muscles and aging brains

Drug perks up old stem cells in both brains and muscles of mice, pointing the way to drug interventions for humans that would make aging tissues throughout the body act young again.
Ivan Berend
UCLA |

Professor who taught history — and lived it — retires

Liberated from Dachau in 1945, Ivan Berend went on to become a key figure in Hungary’s transition from communism.
'City Life' mural
UC Berkeley |

New guide aims to help keep New Deal’s legacy alive

UC Berkeley-based project is dedicated to documenting the vast treasury of public art, park trails, schools, civic buildings and more produced during 1933-1943.
human brain
UC Davis |

Deep brain stimulation tested as treatment for cognitive changes in Parkinson's

Parkinson’s disease profoundly affects learning and memory as it progresses, and there currently are no good treatments for these aspects of the disease.
young girl
UC Davis |

Gender differences in the autistic brain

Girls with autism show distinct differences in their brains and behavior, compared with autistic boys and with normally developing girls.
Vintage postcard, 101 Ranch
UCLA |

Rethinking the history of the American West

Stephen Aron reveals how Manifest Destiny influenced the Nazis and talks about the evolution of scholarship about the West.
Women in computing photo illustration (iStock)
UCLA |

Finding strategies to recruit, retain women, minorities as computer majors

Tech companies are funding research to find strategies to recruit and retain women and minorities in computer science majors.
Scientists warn that humans have been depleting soil at rates that are orders of magnitude greater than our current ability to replenish it. They say that fixing this imbalance is critical to global food security over the next century.
UC Berkeley |

Soil depletion threatens global food security

If trajectory does not change, soil erosion, combined with effects of climate change, will present huge risk to global food security over next century, soil scientists at UC Berkeley and UC Merced warn.