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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 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 Irvine seminar
UC Irvine |

Battling bias

A freshman seminar series on prejudice aims to teach tolerance and encourage activism.
UCLA sick with flu
UCLA |

Everyone’s talking about the flu. Here’s what to do about it

And why — even though it's less effective this year — you should still get the vaccine.
UC Berkeley social media
UC Berkeley |

Social media actually makes you more (not less) relaxed, surprising new research says

It may not make you happy, but it will make you sleepy.
UC San Diego dying coral
UC San Diego |

The ocean is losing its breath

Climate change is rapidly increasing marine ‘dead zones,’ where oxygen is too low to support most marine life.
UC Riverside storybooks
UC Riverside |

How storybook lessons impart scholastic success

Differences in children's literature in the U.S., Mexico and China may help explain academic performance.
Mountain lion paws
UC Davis |

Healing burned paws with fish skin

A young mountain lion injured during the Thomas fire receives an innovative therapy to get him back on his feet.
UCLA DNA home test
UCLA |

Received an at-home DNA test as a holiday gift? Proceed with caution

Many people are ill-equipped to handle troubling medical information without proper guidance, UCLA geneticist says.
1870 female students
University of California |

UC celebrates 150 years of pioneering a better future

Reflecting on a century and a half of life at the world's most renowned public university.
Unite to Light Ghana
UC Santa Barbara |

A guiding light for the vulnerable

Unite to Light, a nonprofit that has distributed over 90,000 solar lamps to 65 countries, now turns to help Rohingya refugees.
yellow warbler UCLA
UCLA |

How bird genetics adapt to climate change

Scientists find yellow warbler DNA is already adjusting to new conditions and ask whether it's enough to survive.
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UC Merced via The Conversation |

For richer or poorer: 4 economists ponder what 2018 has in store

Greg Wright and others project the winners and losers of the economy in the coming year.
Thiebaud UC Davis
UC Davis |

First Thiebaud paintings uncrated for upcoming exhibition

The first exhibition devoted to Thiebaud's artistic maturation opens Jan. 16 at Manetti Shrem.