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Climate change could fuel next wave of immigrants from Latin America

Mon., 2019-07-08 01:57pm
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

Thu., 2019-07-04 05:00pm
“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’?

Tue., 2019-07-02 11:37am
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

Tue., 2019-07-02 10:57am
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

Tue., 2019-07-02 09:00am
Tight-knit student, alumni group will help produce major fireworks shows

Scientists scramble to build payload for 2021 moon landing

Tue., 2019-07-02 07:00am
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

Mon., 2019-07-01 04:30pm
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

Mon., 2019-07-01 04:00pm
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

Mon., 2019-07-01 10:00am
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

Fri., 2019-06-28 11:42am
Evidence points to one clear culprit: Republicans

Berkeley moves to the forefront in California political polling

Fri., 2019-06-28 11:25am
The Berkeley IGS Poll is the go-to pollster for the Los Angeles Times

Berkeley Talks: Virgie Tovar on ending fat phobia

Thu., 2019-06-27 05:00pm
"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

Thu., 2019-06-27 03:08pm
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

Thu., 2019-06-27 11:54am
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

Thu., 2019-06-27 10:00am
Berkeley Haas staffer reflects on hard-won fight for marriage equality

UC Berkeley names new dean to College of Environmental Design

Wed., 2019-06-26 05:00pm
Vishaan Chakrabarti comes from Columbia University

Skateboarding, gymnastics and empty libraries: Berkeley in the summer

Wed., 2019-06-26 03:01pm
A photo essay that captures the summer feel of Berkeley's campus

A message of support for Berkeley’s undocumented community

Wed., 2019-06-26 02:55pm
'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

Wed., 2019-06-26 02:37pm
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

Tue., 2019-06-25 11:51am
New study finds almost one third of U.S. patents rely on federal science investment

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