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Small, but mighty: Transfer Student Center turns 20

Mon., 2019-10-21 12:00am
Counseling, mentoring, career help, peer support — and 25-cent coffee, like it's 1999

Berkeley Talks: Journalist Maggie Haberman on reporting on the Trump White House

Fri., 2019-10-18 03:59pm
"Not everything that Trump is doing is new or something unseen before in U.S. presidential politics, including his attempts to influence how the press does its job," says the New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. "Reporters cannot lose sight of that. He is extreme, but aspects of what he does are not unique."

In ‘La Miguelito,’ a street artist’s murder mirrors Bay Area gentrification

Fri., 2019-10-18 01:20pm
“As a person of color, I wanted to be involved in a production that uplifts the voices that belong to people who look like me, who are stereotyped the way that I’m stereotyped," says third-year student Daniela Cervantes

Nearly 3,000 quilts by African American artists now at BAMPFA

Thu., 2019-10-17 04:20pm
The collection, believed to the be the largest largest of its kind ever assembled, was gifted to the museum as a bequest by Eli Leon, an Oakland-based art scholar and avid collector of African American quilts

California rolls out first statewide earthquake early warning system

Thu., 2019-10-17 11:00am
A mobile phone app developed at UC Berkeley, MyShake, will deliver warning of impending ground shaking to anyone within the state of California

California students to get later school start, thanks to Berkeley alum

Thu., 2019-10-17 10:04am
Two Berkeley alums played a role in a new law that pushed back California school start times

Exoplanet hunter Courtney Dressing awarded 2019 Packard Fellowship

Wed., 2019-10-16 05:00pm
Dressing's research group is advancing the search for life on planets orbiting nearby stars

Here’s the plan for makeup classes after last week’s power outage

Wed., 2019-10-16 01:30pm
Students are encouraged to be in direct contact with instructors if they have any questions about their specific courses

Economist Ted Miguel awakens to Nobel Prize dream — well, almost

Wed., 2019-10-16 11:11am
To recognize Miguel’s contribution to the winners’ “experimental approach to alleviating poverty,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has invited him to the Nobel Prize award ceremony

College of Chemistry to build new Heathcock Hall with gift of $25 million

Wed., 2019-10-16 09:00am
Gift from biotech entrepreneur Terry Rosen and his wife, Tori, will jump-start plans for the building, to open in 2023

If you ask for help, UC Berkeley’s attorney might come visit

Tue., 2019-10-15 02:17pm
Chief Campus Counsel David Robinson makes a point to get out of his office

Border walls don’t make us safer or stronger, says political scientist

Tue., 2019-10-15 02:09pm
Wendy Brown, a professor of political science at UC Berkeley, says most walling, like the barriers at the U.S.-Mexico border, increases the magnitude and complexity of what is was built to repel

Meet our new faculty: Alvin Cheung, EECS

Tue., 2019-10-15 02:02pm
Alvin Cheung works on data management and studies how people write programs.

Meet our new faculty: Jan Engelmann, psychology 

Tue., 2019-10-15 11:28am
He studies how human cognition is different from animal cognition

Author Andrew Marantz talks trolls, tribulations and tumult

Tue., 2019-10-15 09:54am
Marantz will speak Wednesday evening with Chancellor Carol Christ and Ed Wasserman, dean of Berkeley's journalism school

First responders’ daughter fights fire with a mobile app

Mon., 2019-10-14 11:00am
Bailey Farren and her young alumni team hope Perimeter will save lives

Berkeley leaders to campus community: As power is restored, thank you

Fri., 2019-10-11 03:35pm
'Overall we are encouraged by how the campus responded and proud of the way in which so many across our large and diverse community pulled together to support one another,' the leaders write

Campus returns to normal power

Fri., 2019-10-11 01:47pm
1:45 p.m. update: Classes will remain canceled today but research activities and special events may resume.

Our energy grid is vulnerable. Locally sourced power may be the answer.

Fri., 2019-10-11 10:21am
Solar-powered microgrids may be the key to energy resilience in the face of increasing wildfire risk and cybersecurity threats, says UC Berkeley energy expert

Best way to protect ocean fisheries? Let nations profit from them

Fri., 2019-10-11 09:30am
Giving countries exclusive access to fisheries within 200 miles of shore gives them the incentive to police unauthorized fishing and protect ocean resources

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