Light-sensitive cells in a fetus's immature retina are networked, suggesting a bigger role in the developing brain

Chemerinsky and attorney Ethan Dettmer discuss what it's like litigating a case like this and the Supreme Court arguments that happened on Nov. 12

Students, with fire and design/build experts, reinvent century-old ritual

New head of campus HR talks about his goals for Berkeley’s workforce

Neanderthals and modern humans coexisted for hundreds of thousands of years before Neanderthals suddenly went extinct

Name: David Barstow Discipline: Journalism Degrees: B.S., Northwestern University, 1986 Research interests: I spent the last 20 years working as an investigative reporter for The New York Times. Fun fact: Hiking, chess, skiing, travel.

Study suggests addressing teens’ mental health needs may help stem spread of the disease

2:35 p.m. update: PG&E has told campus leaders that this week's planned outage will not affect UC Berkeley.

Classes, events and all operations will proceed as planned and scheduled.

"I believe, fundamentally, that social determinants of health are to the 21st century what infectious disease was to the 20th century," said California's first surgeon general at an event for Berkeley's School of Public Health

Without investment in family planning, girls’ education, agriculture, and security, region's political and economic systems could collapse

All faculty members, instructors, and visiting scholars with print disabilities can request digital copies of material in the library's collection

Michael Werner Zuerch is a new member of the chemistry faculty

Rebecca Wexler is a new member of the Berkeley Law faculty

Zimring has done pathbreaking work examining the role of weapons — particularly guns — in crime, as well as the attempts to curtail it

$106 million initiative will accelerate neuroscience research by embracing artificial intelligence, engineering, data science and other nontraditional fields

"UC has given a lot of support to DACA — I think it’s amazing," says Valeria Chavez-Ayala, an academic counselor for Berkeley's Undocumented Student Program. "But it’s also important to think about how the students who don’t have DACA feel. I want a solution that includes the entire undocumented community because we are all humans."

Professor Haney López, one of the nation's leading thinkers on how racism has evolved in the U.S. since the civil rights era, talks about his new book, Merge Left

1964 alum Robert D. Haas to give Dec. 21 commencement address