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Student Danny Thongsy: We can look within ourselves to find strength and persevere
A formerly incarcerated Laotian American student shares his journey to America as a political refugee and the governor’s pardon that gave him hope for his future
Tracking dancing molecules with super-resolution microscopy
Chemist Ke Xu, a 2021 Heising-Simons Faculty Fellow, is expanding the art of super-resolution microscopy to follow the darting, dancing interactions between molecules in a single cell
Climate change likely to uproot more Amazon trees
A Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley study warns that global warming is likely to increase the number of violent windstorms in the Amazon, knocking down trees that would otherwise suck up greenhouse gases
New ‘chain mail’ material of interlocking molecules is tough, flexible and easy to make
Molecular bonds break when bent, but structures made from interlocking molecules can be flexible and tough, just like the chain mail made of interlocking metal rings worn by medieval knights.
Slideshow: Campus crews respond to winter storms
The recent string of winter storms kept campus work crews busy
Berkeley Talks: Adriana Green and Nadia Ellis discuss ‘The Yellow House’
The discussion about the memoir, which won the 2019 National Book Award for Nonfiction, was part of a series by the Townsend Center for the Humanities
‘Regardless of where I am in the world, Diné Asdzáán Nishłí (I am a Diné woman)’
When Ph.D. student Sierra Edd first heard the Indigenous Futurisms Mixtape in 2014, it changed her relationship to her research and to herself
How UC Berkeley is moving beyond the strike
Campus leaders detail plans for recovery following the six-week strike that ended last month
A big step toward ‘green’ ammonia and a ‘greener’ fertilizer
UC Berkeley chemists demonstrated a new process that uses less energy to separate ammonia from the chemical reactants used industrially to produce the chemical for fertilizer
Among less-educated young workers, women and Black men are paid far less
Study offers the first detailed look at the income disparities that will shape the lives of millions of young Americans with no college education
Speciesism, like racism, imperils humanity and the planet
The attitude that humans are superior to other species has helped justify environmental destruction and animal extinctions, scientists warn
Berkeley Talks: Emiliana Simon-Thomas on where happiness comes from (revisiting)
The science director of UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center discusses happiness — what it means, where it comes from and how we can enhance it in our lives
Pushing to remove legal barriers for formerly incarcerated students
The policy fellowship at UC Berkeley’s Underground Scholars Initiative continues the student group’s tradition of successful legislation work.
Berkeley Journalism mourns the death of disability rights pioneer Hale Zukas
Berkeley-based disability rights pioneer Hale Zukas died on November 30 in Berkeley, California. He was 79 years old.
At winter commencement, celebration and a look forward
“I feel so comforted by the idea of the future being in your hands,” keynote speaker Poulomi Saha told graduates
UC reaches tentative agreements with the UAW mediated by Mayor Steinberg
Under the tentative agreements, the university would provide minimum salary scales for academic student employees, including teaching assistants, and graduate student researchers, and multiyear pay increases, paid dependent access to university health care, and enhanced paid family leave.
Berkeley Talks: The social safety net as an investment in children
UC Berkeley professor Hilary Hoynes discusses the emerging research that examines how the social safety net in the U.S. affects children's life trajectories
Meet our new faculty: Hidetaka Hirota, history
Hidetaka Hirota is a new member of the UC Berkeley faculty