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UC Newsroom |

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 Newsroom |

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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UCLA |

Four threats to American democracy

UCLA professor examines four interconnected issues that could threaten a breakdown of effective democratic government in the United States.
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UC Riverside |

Holograms boost electronic performance

Researchers demonstrate a holographic memory device that could improve storage capacity and processing capabilities in electronics.
UCLA |

UCLA launches crowdfunding platform to support research

UCLA Spark utilizes social media to connect donors with faculty and students across campus.
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UC Riverside |

Better batting through brain training

UC Riverside’s baseball team struck out less frequently in the 2013 season after taking part in brain-training research that significantly improved the vision of individual players.
UC Davis |

Small window of time for volcano eruption

Mount Hood study: Liquid magma, necessary for eruption, is uncommon.
UC Santa Cruz |

Black hole shreds a star

New study shows what happens during the destruction of a star as it falls into a black hole, contradicting a 2012 report of the disruption of an exotic helium star.
UC San Diego |

Calit2 director honored with Golden Goose Award

Larry Smarr's work on black holes led to championing a U.S. supercomputing revolution and Web browsers.
UC San Francisco |

UCSF schools lead the nation in NIH biomedical research funds

Funding reflects quality of research and enables scientists to continue pioneering efforts.
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UC Newsroom |

President Napolitano visits UC Berkeley

President on campus for two days of meetings with faculty, students and staff.
UC Berkeley |

Chronic stress primes brain for mental illness

Chronic stress' impact on stem cells in the brain in turn affects memory and learning. This could explain why stress leads to mental illness later in life.
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UC Berkeley |

Marriage, like fine wine: better when well aged

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage — and then what?
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UCLA Magazine |

In the footsteps of Ansel Adams

Revisit locales for the iconic photographer's 'Fiat Lux' images, and see how UCLA has changed over a half century.