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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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Lawrence Berkeley Lab |

'Kelp Watch" monitors Fukushima nuclear contamination

Berkeley Lab collaborates on program to track nuclear contamination from quake-damaged power plant in Japan.
Golden Globe winners
UC Santa Cruz |

UCSC alumni glow in TV spotlight

Andy Samberg, Cary Fukunaga bring home Golden Globes for TV work.
UC Irvine |

Caffeine consumption enhances memory

A cup of coffee's good not just for waking up, but also for boosting long-term memory.
UC Newsroom |

Why UC is participating in Covered California

UC is helping to increase access to affordable health care.
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UCLA |

Space rocks hit UCLA

California's largest meteorite museum opens on campus.
UC Santa Cruz |

UCSC astronomers find bright young galaxies

The four galaxies are among the earliest and most distant ever discovered.
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UC Berkeley |

Suburban sprawl cancels carbon-footprint savings of dense urban cores

Reliance on cars and trucks generates much greater greenhouse-gas emissions outside urban core areas.
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UC Riverside |

Battling ants with alluring pheromones

Pheromone draws pesky, invasive Argentine ants to insecticide, eliminating need for indiscriminate spraying that can harm the environment.
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UC Berkeley |

Neanderthal genome shows cozy relationship between early humans

Population geneticists find more evidence of in- and interbreeding between Neanderthals, Denisovans, other human groups.
UCLA |

World's earliest depiction of volcanic eruption

Professor confirms that Turkish mural is a representation of an eruption more than 8,000 years ago.
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UC Newsroom |

UCSF chancellor to step down in March

Susan Desmond-Hellmann, chancellor since 2009, will become CEO of the Gates Foundation.
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UC Riverside |

Can a glass of wine a day keep the doctor away?

Drinking in moderation — but not to excess — can help boost your immune response to vaccination.