"Thinking about bathers touched a nerve that was sensitive to a need I didn't realize was in me," said Chan during the 2019-20 Una's Lecture

The project, "Six degrees of Mark Twain," has pulled from a vast collection of the library’s Mark Twain Papers and Project to explore how Twain’s life intersected with six notable people, from Helen Keller to Frederick Douglass

With 18 CRISPR-Cas9 patents issued to UC in 2018, it was a banner year for the revolutionary technology discovered by Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier

During a recent lecture at UC Berkeley, Crawford discussed two problems in formulating immigration policy that leads to dehumanization — the absence of migrant rights and rival national identities

"I do not believe that Berkeley is a bubble, as it is often called," said Chancellor Carol Christ to winter graduates on Saturday. "But I do feel that in this campus, we share a small and bounded world that each of us can influence, shape and make different by what we do and say"

"You came here to learn, and I encourage you to keep learning when you leave," said Choi at the 2019 winter commencement ceremony on Saturday

'This is one of the most rigorous, high-quality institutions of higher education in the country — and indeed the world,' Haas told graduates.

“Working for lasting social progress takes time,” said keynote speaker Robert D. Haas to 650 graduates at UC Berkeley's 2019 winter commencement ceremony in Haas Pavilion on Saturday. “... But if you persevere, stay focused on the result you are trying to achieve ... well, anything is possible.”

For UC Berkeley, it was a year of honoring the past, celebrating new beginnings and making discoveries. Here's a look back in photos, video and audio

Watch video highlights of the top UC Berkeley stories from 2019 — in under 3 minutes

In her regular conversation with the campus community, Chancellor Carol Christ talked with about her plans for Berkeley

The partnership is Sacramento's first large-scale innovation agreement

Thomas Mann is a resident scholar at UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies

On Feb. 14, 2018, Kai Koerber sat huddled in his band room's closet as a gunman killed 17 people at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Now, he's a first-year student at Berkeley, speaking out about the impacts of gun violence on youth.

Reinventing Reality lets you explore the science, creativity and innovation behind one of the world's fastest-evolving technologies, VR

A discovery that made headlines in November is shot down in December, thanks to a sharp-eyed young astronomer

Ginsburg talks about the challenges she faced as a woman in a male-dominated field, how "overjoyed" she is that women are now welcomed at the bar and on the bench and how unconscious bias is still a problem

"Even impeachment may lose its power to focus the nation and its institutions on accountability," says one UC Berkeley expert

UC Berkeley chemical engineers led a team that designed a material that can capture carbon dioxide from wet flue gasses better than current commercial materials