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Berkeley Haas celebrates 125 years of reimagining business

Mon., 2023-07-31 12:05pm
This month the school is celebrating its history as a leader in advancing management education, corporate responsibility, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Berkeley Talks: Jessica Morse on how we can live with fire

Fri., 2023-07-28 03:19pm
The deputy secretary for forest and wildland resilience at the California Natural Resources Agency discusses the current wildfire crisis and strategies the state is implementing to decrease catastrophic wildfires and create more resilient forests.

Michael Rapé discusses Berkeley’s new Division of Molecular Therapeutics

Fri., 2023-07-28 01:49pm
The new undergraduate emphasis focuses on innovative approaches to treating disease and accelerated drug discovery

UC Berkeley’s Alison Gopnik wins Rumelhart Prize in Cognitive Science

Thu., 2023-07-27 08:00am
Heralded as the Nobel Prize equivalent in cognitive science, Gopnik won for her research into how children learn and what they can teach us about ourselves.

James Webb Space Telescope sees Jupiter moons in a new light

Thu., 2023-07-27 05:00am
NASA's new space telescope uses its high-resolution spectrometer to find hydrogen peroxide around Ganymede's poles and sulfur monoxide emerging from Io's volcanos

Terrestrial ecosystems significantly offset human carbon emissions

Wed., 2023-07-26 04:54pm
A new study finds that Earth's ecosystems absorb approximately one-third of anthropogenic carbon emissions annually, a capability that UC Berkeley researchers say would be threatened by continued global change

Open-source platform makes it easier to create 3D scenes from images

Wed., 2023-07-26 01:45pm
Nerfstudio provides plug-and-play components for implementing Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), a technology that turns images into 3D navigable scenes

Racial gap in air quality may persist under Biden program, study finds

Tue., 2023-07-25 03:15pm
To avoid legal challenges, the Biden administration did not include racial demographics in a tool used to identify disadvantaged communities for government investments

Berkeley startup founder talks FlowGPT and concerns over the future of AI

Mon., 2023-07-24 09:55am
Lifan Wang discusses how he met his FlowGPT co-founder, Jay Dang, at UC Berkeley, and why speed was critical for his startup in entering the AI market.

A Berkeley expert’s guide to California’s social housing proposals

Fri., 2023-07-21 11:55am
Zoe Klingmann, a Master of Public Policy student, breaks down the three different social housing proposals under consideration by the state legislature

AileyCamp: A six-week transformative dance experience for youth

Thu., 2023-07-20 01:41pm
Since it began in 2002, Berkeley/Oakland AileyCamp has had more than 1,200 students participate in the full-scholarship summer program

Cheri A. Pies, author of pioneering book on lesbian parenting, dies at 73

Thu., 2023-07-20 09:34am
Pies was a national leader in women’s health and spent many years as a clinical professor at Berkeley Public Health

Study sheds light on where conscious experience resides in brain

Wed., 2023-07-19 09:00am
Experiment addresses long-standing question in neuroscience: Where are unconscious perceptions stored and how do we become aware of them?

Oppenheimer: July 28 panel discussion focuses on the man behind the movie

Wed., 2023-07-19 08:00am
The new movie Oppenheimer focuses on the Manhattan Project and its aftermath. But before that, Oppenheimer turned UC Berkeley into the U.S. center of theoretical physics

Berkeley economist uses expertise, AI to support her native Ukraine

Tue., 2023-07-18 12:22pm
Professor Anastassia Fedyk has launched a variety of initiatives to help those impacted by the Russia-Ukraine war, including the aid-matching platform LifeForce

Berkeley Journalism mourns death of Emeritus Professor Andrew Stern

Tue., 2023-07-18 11:57am
The last remaining original faculty member of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Andrew Stern, has died. He was 92.

Hidden cameras spot wildlife returning home after 2018 megafire

Mon., 2023-07-17 01:34pm
UC Berkeley researchers analyzed motion-sensor camera photos collected before and after the Mendocino Complex Fire and found that many species were remarkably resistant to the impacts of the historic blaze

When ET calls, can we be sure we’re not being spoofed?

Mon., 2023-07-17 05:00am
A new SETI technique developed by Breakthrough Listen researchers filters out Earth interference and focus on extraterrestrial signals only

Berkeley Talks: Siri creator Adam Cheyer shares secrets of entrepreneurship

Fri., 2023-07-14 04:35pm
In this Berkeley Talks episode, Cheyer tells the story of Siri and explains how to take an entrepreneurial idea from conception to impact

How Berkeley Public Health is becoming an antiracist school

Fri., 2023-07-14 02:43pm
Over a two-year period, an antiracist change initiative at the school has trained more than 100 faculty from across the UC Berkeley campus, led a series of antiracism trainings for staff and non-faculty academics, and launched an elective course on antiracism for students.

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