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UC leads American public research universities in global impact, new rankings show
All 10 UC campuses are among the best universities in the world in research impact, with eight among the top 25 public universities in the United States, according to the 2025-26 Best Global Universities ranking from U.S. News & World Report.
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How UC’s College Corps student volunteers are helping tackle some of California’s biggest challenges
College Corps connects some 10,000 students from 44 colleges up and down the state with paid fellowships at hundreds of local nonprofits working to address crucial challenge areas for California.
UC Irvine |
An AI that’s a better friend — and maybe a lifeline for humanity
An AI from UC Irvine researchers doesn’t just chat. It remembers, it cares, and it might just help us save ourselves.
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Next up for UC’s Class of 2025? Building California’s brilliant future
From jobs to graduate school to giving back to the communities they came from, UC’s latest crop of graduates has big plans to make a difference.
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Meet 4 UC-trained nurses who are solving California’s biggest health care challenges
Nurses graduating from UC take on one of the biggest challenges facing our state: A shortage of clinicians that makes it too hard for too many people to get the medical care they need.
UC Newsroom |
UC awards $18 million to scale up the ambition and impact of AI in science
Together with Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Labs, the University of California is funding research to develop new AI approaches in genomics, quantum materials discovery and geothermal energy.
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The race to perfect the quantum computer is on, and UC is helping America hold its lead
There's a reason several of the world's biggest tech companies have quantum research headquarters in California.
UC Newsroom |
9 UC alumni awarded 2025 Pulitzer Prizes
Across categories of reporting, biography, history, and nonfiction UC alums from four campuses produced urgent work of the highest quality.
UC Irvine |
UC Irvine scientists among winners of Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
$3 million award recognizes research achievements at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
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11 UC faculty honored with 2025 Guggenheim fellowships
The prestigious award, now in its 100th year, is granted to distinguished artists and scholars and provides support for their creative and research endeavors.
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What makes a UC education stand apart? Opportunities for hands-on learning and undergraduate research
For these UC students, hands-on research has led to class credit, money for school and a path to their dream future.
UC Office of the President |
Young UC scientists and economists selected for prestigious Nobel laureate meeting
The University of California today (April 24) announced the 2025 cohort of UC President’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellows, 42 outstanding young scientists and economists from across the UC system who will join Nobel laureates from around the world at two renowned scholarly gatherings in Lindau, Germany.