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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 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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UC Davis |

Program targets next generation of physicians to advance Latino health

Prep Médico will provide scholarships, mentorship and internship opportunities, intensive language training and more, to expand diversity in medicine.
Co-founder Rafid Sikder and Senior Director of Dining Services David Henry
UC Riverside |

Feeding the needy, one swipe at a time

UC Riverside's Swipes for the Homeless chapter donates $5,000 worth of food to charity.
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UC Berkeley |

Citizen science helps predict spread of sudden oak death

Efforts to predict the emergence and spread of sudden oak death, an infectious disease that kills oaks and other trees, have gotten a big boost from the work of grassroots volunteers.
UC Irvine |

Extended space travel may warp astronauts' brains

Worrisome news for potential missions to Mars: Long-term galactic cosmic ray exposure can cause permanent dementia-like cognitive impairments.
UC Riverside grad students Vicente Nunez and Jessica Diaz, along with graduate dean Joseph Childers, chatted with state Assemblyman Jose Medina about the nature of their research.
UC Newsroom |

Grad students bring their 'secret sauce' to Sacramento

UC’s emerging scientists and scholars share innovation, expertise.
Fisheries need to improve sustainable practices before doing business on global seafood market.
UC Davis |

Sustainability progress should precede seafood market access, researchers urge

A team of UC Davis-led researchers finds that fishery improvement projects need to be fine tuned to ensure that fisheries are delivering on their promises.
A display of healthy foods.
UC Riverside |

Seeds of change

Free public talk at UC Riverside, part of UC Global Food Initiative lecture series, to discuss the campus' sustainable food efforts.
UC Berkeley |

Al Gore: Democracy has been hacked

The former vice president speaks passionately about our political system, the environment and the future of humankind.
Researcher Joy Mench measured the tradeoffs and benefits of alternate methods for housing egg-laying hens.
UC Davis |

Hen-housing study unveils tradeoffs for birds and workers

Alternative housing systems for laying hens present a variety of tradeoffs, according to new UC Davis research.
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Lawrence Berkeley Lab |

How a new telescope will measure the expansion of the universe

A next-generation experiment will create the largest 3-D map of the universe and help Berkeley Lab scientists get a handle on dark energy.
UC Merced |

Grad student uses math to study deadly diseases

Graduate student Jason Davis doesn’t use a traditional lab to study prion diseases. Instead, he relies on computer modeling and applied mathematics.
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UC San Diego |

Pancreatic cancer risk linked to weak sunlight

Epidemiologists suggest harm may come from low levels of vitamin D, which is produced by the body when skin is directly exposed to sunlight.