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Climate change could fuel next wave of immigrants from Latin America
UC Berkeley Michael Bakal's research suggests that the combination of drought and rising heat could force Guatemalan farmers to head north to feed their families.
Berkeley Talks: #SandraBlandMystery: Aaminah Norris on the transmedia story of police brutality
“A lot of the work that I do is helping people to understand that they have a responsibility to disrupt media messages and not just consume,” says Norris, an assistant professor at Sacramento State in the College of Education.
Is wildfire management ‘for the birds’?
Prescribed burning and restoration thinning helped save red-cockaded woodpeckers in the nation’s South. The same strategy could protect spotted owls from wildfires in the West, argues a new paper.
Seventh CRISPR patent awarded to Doudna/Charpentier team
UC's growing portfolio includes a seventh issued patent for genome editing in a cell using a CRISPR protein-RNA complex
Berkeley’s cannoneers fire up for the Fourth
Tight-knit student, alumni group will help produce major fireworks shows
Scientists scramble to build payload for 2021 moon landing
Space Sciences Laboratory will assemble a science package from spare parts to study electromagnetic fields and dust on the lunar surface
The future isn’t so golden for California’s next wave of retirees
About half of California private sector employees ages 25 to 64 don’t have dedicated retirement assets, according to a new data brief by Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education.
Fiat Love: Berkeley joins tens of thousands to celebrate Pride
Clad in T-shirts that read "Fiat Love" and holding "Go Bears" signs, the campus community joined some 50,000 marchers in the 2019 San Francisco Pride celebration.
Law students help end fees in Nevada for youth in delinquency system
Savannah Reid and Dagen Downar — both Nevada natives — wrote the bill from start to finish.
Why is America’s government broken, a new paper asks
Evidence points to one clear culprit: Republicans
Berkeley moves to the forefront in California political polling
The Berkeley IGS Poll is the go-to pollster for the Los Angeles Times
Berkeley Talks: Virgie Tovar on ending fat phobia
"Every time I leave my house, I'm deeply aware that someone might say something to me that's really dehumanizing and stultifying. Because we're just in that environment where people feel the right to police and speak out violently against fat women, in particular."
Activist Cathy Cade’s photos document decades of Bay Area’s lesbian community
In 2012, UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library acquired Cade's full photo archive — the library's only full archive from a lesbian photographer.
Berkeley Law opening new doors for Native American students
The reconstitution of the Berkeley chapter of the Native American Law Students Association led to this week's set of workshops at Berkeley Law
Pride in a more perfect union
Berkeley Haas staffer reflects on hard-won fight for marriage equality
UC Berkeley names new dean to College of Environmental Design
Vishaan Chakrabarti comes from Columbia University
Skateboarding, gymnastics and empty libraries: Berkeley in the summer
A photo essay that captures the summer feel of Berkeley's campus
A message of support for Berkeley’s undocumented community
'We remain steadfast in welcoming, supporting, and building community with our undocumented students and staff,' chancellor says
Disrupted sleep in one’s 50s, 60s raises risk of Alzheimer’s disease
Protein tangles in the aging brain throw sleep rhythms out of sync, likely leading to some of the memory problems associated with dementia
Government funding increasingly fuels innovation
New study finds almost one third of U.S. patents rely on federal science investment