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UC Newsroom |

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 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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Cannabis plant
UCSF |

Cannabis-based drug reduces seizures in children with treatment resistant epilepsy

First study to examine the safety and efficacy of cannabidiol for children
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UC Riverside |

Music professor tapped for National Council on the Humanities

President Obama will nominate UC Riverside's Deborah Wong for the National Council on the Humanities.
Beer for Butterfly contest
UC Davis |

Don't miss the annual 'Beer for a Butterfly' contest

Be the first to catch a cabbage white butterfly as part of this UC Davis professor's study and win an unusual prize.
When poverty becomes disease
UCSF |

Poor health: when poverty becomes disease

UCSF doctors and researchers address the impact of poverty on health in research and practice.
Mentoring at UCSD
The Conversation |

At UC San Diego, retired professors are mentoring first-generation college students

UCSD's unique mentoring program provides benefits to retired professors and students alike.
UC Merced Hypercats Design Team
UC Merced |

Student team makes the cut in global ‘hyperloop’ competition

UC Merced student engineers invited to international transportation design competition.
Bay Area Carbon Emissions Map
UC Berkeley |

New interactive map compares carbon footprints of Bay Area neighborhoods

UC Berkeley helps produce a first-of-its-kind map to help neighborhoods reduce their carbon footprints.
Sustainable Los Angeles
UCLA |

Steps toward a sustainable golden age for Los Angeles proposed in new UCLA plan

Developing the plan involved more than two dozen faculty members from different disciplines across campus
UCLA Alzheimer's Research
UCLA |

Sounding the alarm on a future epidemic: Alzheimer's disease

UCLA biostatistics team forecasts prevalence of the disease under different circumstances
Jendi Samai
UCLA |

UCLA center helps community college students transfer

Center for Community College Partnerships guides students to UC and other four-year colleges.
Mother with baby and cellphone
UC Irvine |

Put the cellphone away! Fragmented baby care can affect brain development

UC Irvine study shows link between maternal infant-rearing and adolescent depression.
Statue of Liberty
UCLA |

UCLA prof helps capture immigrants' accounts of their first days in America

First Days Project website enables newcomers to share heartfelt recollections of arriving in the United States.