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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 Newsroom |

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.
UCLA |

A future astronaut takes flight

Solar physicist Brandon Lazard shares his appropriately warm outlook on life and science.
UCLA |

World’s first human bladder transplant performed at UCLA

The historic surgery, resulting from years of research, opens the door to improved treatment of non-functioning bladders.
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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.
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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.
UCLA |

Bursting your bubble: Chewing gum releases microplastics into your saliva, UCLA research shows

A person happily gnawing away on a large piece of gum could unleash more than 3,000 microplastic particles, according to the UCLA team.
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.
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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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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.
UC Health |

Match made in California: 67 percent of UC medical students to enter residency programs in the state

This year’s Match Day saw 748 UC medical students match into residency programs and welcome the momentous next step of their careers.