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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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Tajeerah Mujahid
UC Newsroom |

UC looks to simplify and improve transfer experience

Board of Regents will hear recommendations for streamlining the community college transfer process.
UC President Napolitano at UC Hastings
UC Hastings College of the Law |

President Napolitano delivers UC Hastings commencement address

Address invoked influential alumni, both famous and little-known.
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UC Berkeley |

Polar bear genome gives new insight into adaptations to high-fat diet

The polar bear — recently diverged from its brown cousins — has genes involved in fat metabolism that could provide insights that will help humans deal with health problems caused by high-fat diets.
Shaochen Chen
UC San Diego |

Liver-like device, via 3-D printer

External device, like dialysis, emulates the liver's ability to remove toxins from the bloostream.
UC San Francisco |

Smarts and long life, thanks to this gene

A common form of a gene already associated with longevity also improves learning and memory.
Rebecca Smith-Bindman
UC Newsroom |

Innovation propels UC Health

Annual colloquium addresses need for heightened collaboration to increase quality, lower costs across the system.
UC San Diego |

For GoPro founder, UC San Diego was catalyst for creativity

Entrepreneur Nick Woodman: “You wake up one morning and the company you started with your college friends is the fastest growing digital capture company in the world.”
Sam Hawgood, UCSF interim chancellor
UC Newsroom |

Moving toward one UC Health

UC's five academic medical centers are at an inflection point, according to Dr. Sam Hawgood, UC San Francisco interim chancellor and medical school dean.
UC Berkeley
California Magazine |

Cal’s plan to shrink a big, impersonal campus

Berkeley Connect is Cal’s plan to shrink a big, impersonal campus and reintroduce elements of the small liberal arts college experience.
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UC Santa Cruz |

GPS collar tracks puma's travels to suburbs

Young cat's efforts to establish his own territory took him into the heart of downtown Mountain View.
UC Newsroom |

Scientists look for pathogen that's killing sea stars

UC Santa Cruz monitoring program is helping to pinpoint what's causing decimation of key coastal species.
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Lawrence Berkeley Lab |

No ocean-borne radiation from Fukushima found

Kelp Watch 2014, a project that tests kelp along the western U.S. coast for signs of radioactive seawater, has found none from the 2011 disaster.