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Scientists track frog-killing fungus to help curb its spread
Frog skin swabs reveal when and where the deadly disease has popped up in wildlife populations around the world
UC Berkeley, former Gov. Jerry Brown partner with China to spur climate action
New institute will advance research and policy solutions to lower greenhouse gas emissions
Chancellor Christ: Entering Berkeley’s new era of excellence
Chancellor Carol Christ issued the following message to the campus community on Monday, Sept. 23, 2019: Dear friends and colleagues, As the academic year begins, I want to provide you with an update on the
Berkeley’s student-led climate strike: ‘Let’s demand climate action’
“Berkeley’s motto is ‘Let there be light.’ We want that light to shine on important issues, such as climate change,” says student organizer
Berkeley Talks: Admissions director Femi Ogundele on what makes a Berkeley student
In an hour-long Campus Conversation, Ogundele talks about the power of strong messaging and targeted outreach and how the Chancellor's Diversity Initiative is an opportunity to "reimagine and reengage" new students.
In media coverage of climate change, where are the facts?
A study of New York Times coverage of climate change shows that articles rarely present the facts behind the scientific consensus on global warming
Experts talk guns, NRA and myths at Second Amendment panel
Five takeaways from a discussion with faculty in law, politics and history, held on Sept. 16 in Moffitt Library's Free Speech Movement Cafe
Coral reefs and squat lobsters flourished 150 million years ago
Neither true lobsters nor true crabs, squat lobsters have a colorful history going back to the dinosaur era
UC President Janet Napolitano to step down next year
Since taking the helm in September 2013, Napolitano has chartered a strong, solid course for the world-class system of 10 campuses, five academic medical centers and three nationally affiliated labs.
BAMPFA’s ‘San Quentin Project’ looks at life inside the state prison
In 2011, artist Nigel Poor, best known as a co-host of the podcast, Ear Hustle, began teaching courses to inmates in which they explored the meaning behind photos by notable photographers and from the prison's archive.
Meet our new faculty: Dipti Nayak, biology
Meet our new faculty: Dipti Nayak, biology
Meet our new faculty: Claire Montialoux, public policy
Meet our new faculty: Claire Montialoux, public policy
CRISPR portfolio now at 14 and counting
The patent board has issued three CRISPR-based patents to UC in September alone
Demagogues and democracy – it can’t happen here?
"Societies with strong democratic traditions and civil discourse may appear to be partially immune to the worst scenarios of nationalism gone haywire," writes John Douglass, a senior research fellow at the Center for Studies in Higher Education. "But reflecting on the history of the United States ... perhaps democracy itself is more fragile than many of us would like to think. Others have thought so."
Constitution’s biggest flaw? Protecting slavery
Berkeley Law's dean considers the history of the document on Constitution Day
An anti-nuclear-contamination pill could help MRI patients
Assistant professor of nuclear engineering Rebecca Abergel tackles possible toxicity from gadolinium-based contrast agents
Summit to tackle tricky problems of aging and dementia
Researchers, entrepreneurs, policymakers and health care workers will explore the challenges of neurodegenerative diseases
Who owns America’s schools? Professor Janelle Scott on ‘No Jargon’ podcast
With education in the U.S. becoming more privatized than ever before comes mounting inequality within the education system, says Janelle Scott, a professor in the Graduate School of Education and the Department of African American Studies at UC Berkeley
Yearly snapshot of Saturn helps astronomers monitor the ringed world
UC Berkeley helps lead an annual campaign by NASA to photograph our solar system's giant, gaseous planets
Inorganic chemist Richard Andersen has died at the age of 76
Andersen contributed to many areas of inorganic and organometallic chemistry involving elements across the periodic table