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Student Danny Thongsy: We can look within ourselves to find strength and persevere

Fri., 2023-01-20 10:54am
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

Fri., 2023-01-20 08:45am
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

Thu., 2023-01-19 02:29pm
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

Wed., 2023-01-18 08:30am
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

Tue., 2023-01-17 02:20pm
The recent string of winter storms kept campus work crews busy

Berkeley Talks: Adriana Green and Nadia Ellis discuss ‘The Yellow House’

Fri., 2023-01-13 04:01pm
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)’

Fri., 2023-01-13 12:41pm
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

Thu., 2023-01-12 04:40pm
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

Wed., 2023-01-11 08:00am
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

Tue., 2023-01-10 07:30am
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

Mon., 2023-01-09 09:00am
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)

Fri., 2022-12-30 10:39pm
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

Thu., 2022-12-22 01:26pm
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

Wed., 2022-12-21 09:00am
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

Sat., 2022-12-17 08:58pm
“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

Fri., 2022-12-16 06:29pm
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

Fri., 2022-12-16 03:51pm
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

Tue., 2022-12-13 03:18pm
Hidetaka Hirota is a new member of the UC Berkeley faculty

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