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A tale of Tinder wins the day at the 10th annual UC Grad Slam

The hotly anticipated annual contest offered a peek at groundbreaking research powered by graduate students across the University of California system.

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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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UCLA |

Venting your frustrations can make friends like you better — if you do it right

Psychologists at UCLA find it isn’t cathartic but can strengthen bonds that might pay off in the future.
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UC San Diego |

Presence of liquid water most probable explanation for data collected by Mars lander

Researchers infer that stores of water must exist in planet’s crust.
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UCLA |

Molecule restores cognition and memory in Alzheimer’s disease mouse study

A molecule identified and synthesized by UCLA Health researchers has the potential to revitalize memory and cognition for several conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease and depression.
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UC Natural Reserve System |

Improving predictions of plant species survival with the California poppy

Professors Elsa Cleland of UC San Diego and Jason Sexton of UC Merced will quantify genetic diversity using seeds collected from widespread wild populations, and monitor the fates of those populations in the wild.
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UC Davis |

Brain-computer interface allows man with ALS to ‘speak’

A brain-computer interface (BCI) developed by UC Davis Health accurately translates brain signals into speech. The device implanted in the brain of a man with ALS is the most accurate system of its kind.
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UC Santa Barbara |

Outsourcing conservation in Africa

Management of many of the continent's protected areas is being transferred from governments to nonprofit NGOs. Research from UC Santa Barbara delves into the problems that's causing for residents and the environment.
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UC Newsroom |

UC athletes bring home 39 medals from a memorable Paris Summer Games

UC athletes racked up a total across 12 sports that would be the 11th-most in the world if UC was a country.
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UC Newsroom |

You can’t stop wildfire, but you can take steps to fireproof your home

Practical tips informed by cutting-edge research from UC Cooperative Extension foresters.
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UC Riverside |

How does traumatic brain injury progress to Alzheimer’s disease?

An NIH grant to UC Riverside and Indiana University will explore the question.
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UC Santa Barbara |

Big sharks have a big impact — and a big problem

A new study shows how sharks are the straw that stirs the big drink — and that the species most affected by fishing are also the most important for healthy oceans.
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UC Merced |

Fulbright award sends physics grad student to France for quantum research

UC Merced doctoral candidate Arabi Seshappan was selected for the Fulbright-Université Paris-Saclay Doctoral Research Award, which is only granted to three U.S. students each year.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory |

Los Alamos machine learning model takes a big step forward in predicting earthquakes

Scientists used powerful modeling software to find patterns in the continuous seismic waveforms during a series of stick-slip, magnitude-5 earthquakes.