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Prepare to be amazed! UC graduate students wow with 3-minute talks at Grad Slam

Get a master class — in brief — on cutting-edge UC discoveries as graduate students explain their complex research in just 3 minutes flat.

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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 |

Improving childhood health

UC Berkeley, Davis, Irvine join major federal effort to understand how our earliest years affect later wellness.
UC Davis phone wine
UC Davis |

Wine industry leaders optimistic as millennials opt for premium wines

It turns out young people are willing to trade in beer cans for a glass of wine.
Methyl bromide has been used by growers since the 1970s to control soil pathogens, weeds and nematodes. Pictured are pathogen-infected plants in a buffer zone where fumigants can't be applied.
UC Santa Cruz |

Pesticide predicament for California's strawberry growers

UC Santa Cruz professor examines challenges as popular chemical is phased out.
How parenting changes UC Irvine
UC Irvine |

How parenting has improved since the '60s

Almost all surveyed Western nations show an increase in child care time spent by both parents.
UC San Diego loneliness study
UC San Diego |

Feeling lonely? Study says it's in your DNA

Research finds loneliness is hereditary, part of a biological warning system for our social health.
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UC Newsroom |

How do you grow an entrepreneur?

UC startup Back to the Roots offers a master class.
UC Merced professor Clarissa Nobile (left) works on biofilm research.
UC Merced |

Research breakthrough could help diagnose, treat biofilm infections

UC Merced professor is on cutting edge of new field of research.
UC Irvine first-generation faculty
UC Irvine |

First-generation faculty welcome UC freshmen

Professors who were once first-generation students themselves show what's possible for UC students.
UCLA mindfulness kids
UCLA |

Mindfulness helps children as young as 3 manage their emotions during school

An innovative new program is helping students deal with stress and focus on schoolwork.
UC Riverside inclusion works
UC Riverside |

Disabilities, hidden or not, bring benefits to a workplace

UC Riverside celebrates National Disability Employment Awareness Month in October by showing that '#InclusionWorks.'
UC Pell Grants
UC Newsroom |

Students and UC leaders urge Congress to restore year-round Pell Grants

UC pushes for extended aid in the federal spending bill in order to help students graduate faster and at a lower cost.
Zulmira T. (left) watches as her son Kobe B. (yellow shirt) expresses his delight in seeing Dr. Emma Simmons. Alfonso Guzman, a licensed vocation nurse assigned to Kobe B., is seen on the right.
UC Riverside |

Providing access

Clinic offers top quality health care to developmentally disabled adults and much relief for their families.