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A tale of Tinder wins the day at the 10th annual UC Grad Slam

The hotly anticipated annual contest offered a peek at groundbreaking research powered by graduate students across the University of California system.

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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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UC San Francisco |

UCSF Global Health Sciences receives $6M for neglected diseases

Funding from Gates Foundation and Carlos Slim Health Institute will target Chagas’ disease, dengue and onchocerciasis.
Nailah Seale and Daril Brown
UC San Diego |

Faculty inspire Howard grads to pursue Ph.D. at UC San Diego

Bioengineers were among first members of UC San Diego Howard Partnership for Graduate Student Success.
UC Berkeley |

Discovery of how Taxol works could lead to better anticancer drugs

Subtle cell disruption is key to widely-used drug's effectiveness.
UC Riverside |

Author wins major literary award

Nalo Hopkinson receives the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.
UC Newsroom |

The future of UC Health

Pressure increases to lower costs, improve quality.
UC Berkeley |

Central Valley sees big drop in wintertime fog needed by fruit and nut crops

Winter's shroud is needed to force tree crops into dormancy — it's necessary for budding, setting of fruit.
UC Merced |

New center seeks better ways to communicate climate issues

Center eyes the power of language as key to effective communication of climate risks.
Sukkertoppen ice cap, Greenland
UC Irvine |

Greenland will add far more to sea rise than expected

UCI-NASA work reveals long, deep valleys connecting ice cap to the ocean.
UC Santa Cruz |

Wireless camera network offers new possibilities for security systems

Prototype solar-powered device has potential applications for security cameras and wildlife monitoring in remote areas.
UC Davis |

Drought's steep price for Central Valley agriculture

Industry may lose more than $1 billion; thousands of workers may lose their jobs.
Grateful Dead
UC Newsroom |

Legacies live on in special collections

Collection of iconic band's materials is one of many rich archives entrusted to UC.
UCLA |

Schools in U.S. growing more separate, still unequal

Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, schools nationwide are becoming more segregated for African Americans and Latinos.