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UC Newsroom |
Prepare to be amazed! UC graduate students wow with 3-minute talks at Grad Slam
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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
California Magazine |
Architectural students reinvent the community center
Imagine a community center that’s not your typical chunk of cinderblock — instead it’s an architecturally avant garde space where neighbors gather to grow, cook and eat food.
UC Newsroom |
UC Carbon Neutrality Student Fellows tackle big climate problems
The fellowships will fund projects, from the classroom to the operating room, that will steer the UC system toward its carbon neutrality goal.
UC Newsroom |
UC leaders head back to high school
UC leaders will deliver a college-going message to high school students around the state, as part of the annual Achieve UC effort.
UC Berkeley |
Engineers give a girl a hand
Eight-year-old Sophie doesn’t have fully developed finger bones in her left hand, but with the help of a CITRIS Invention Lab team, she is the new user of a 3-D printed super hand.
UC Merced |
Toddlers can spy deception in others
Even tots younger than 2 can tell when someone's trying to pull a fast one.
UC Irvine |
Massive northeast Greenland glacier is rapidly melting
Breakup of Zachariae Isstrom could substantially raise sea levels around the globe.
California Magazine |
Students increasingly bringing “emotional support” animals to college
Nobody claims the dorms are evolving into petting zoos. But animals are gaining a toehold (clawhold?) in Cal residences.
UC Davis |
Global shift to bicycling could save trillions of dollars, cut 10 percent of transport emissions
A global shift to bicycling would have a huge impact on the environment, especially in urban areas, and could save trillions of dollars.
UCLA |
David Geffen donates $100M to launch school for grades 6-12
Geffen Academy at UCLA will serve as model for contemporary education, provide students access to campus learning opportunities and facilities.
UC Berkeley |
Whiskers and locks: reading U.S. history through hair
From bearded lady acts to the Victorian practice of hair collecting, grad student Sarah Gold McBride is teasing out the meaning of hair in 19th-century America, and how it reveals evolving ideas about race and gender.
UCLA |
A simpler way to define what makes a planet
Professor's new approach classifies 99 percent of all known exoplanets.
UC Santa Barbara |
Saying I do
Demographer chronicles how marriage has morphed into a means of supporting intensive investments in children.