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Meet our new faculty: Kosa Goucher-Lambert, mechanical engineering
Goucher-Lambert is interested in all things design and product development.
I’m a Berkeleyan: Student Amir Wright on leading by example, power of community
"I try to lead by example. That comes from my grandmother. She’s the founder and president of the Black Flight Attendants of America. She always told us to not lead from above or in front, but be in there with your people, doing the work right alongside them."
I’m a Berkeleyan: Althea Grannum-Cummings
"I started out as adviser to get people into school. Now, I’m an adviser to help keep students in school."
Trade war cost $7.8 billion, new paper finds
Analysis finds that the costs of the trade war are being borne disproportionately by heavily Republican counties, especially those in the Midwestern plains and Mountain West.
Dragging? Blame the ‘time pollution’ of springing forward
It’s been documented that time changes have demonstrable links to automobile accidents, workplace accidents, heart attacks and strokes
Fiat Vox: For Malika Imhotep, devotion to black feminist study is a life practice
The Ph.D. candidate is interested in how black women and femmes make sense of themselves in a society designed, in many ways, to keep them out. So, she and graduate student Miyuki Baker, started the Church of Black Feminist Thought.
This beetle’s gut may hide clues to making better biofuels
The digestive tract of this forest-dwelling insect transforms decaying wood into energy-rich materials
Bringing public values into technical systems
Berkeley News spoke with Deirdre Mulligan about Berkeley’s long-standing commitment to supporting research and teaching that explores the social and political consequences of technology
Friday’s return to Berkeley will be special for Nobel winner Frances Arnold
Arnold, who got her master's and PhD. at UC Berkeley, returns to the campus Friday for the unveiling of a plaque honoring her 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry after which she'll be saluted at a Dean's Dinner and reception.
Berkeley Talks: Year of the woman: Panel on the recent rise of women in politics
Moderator Laurel Rosenhall of CALmatters leads a Feb. 1, 2019, discussion with Mary Hughes of Close the Gap; Nicole Boucher of the California Donor Table; Amanda Renteria of Emerge America about the recent rise of women in politics
Can entangled qubits be used to probe black holes?
Demonstration of scrambling in quantum computer suggests a way to resurrect ‘lost’ information from inside a black hole
In campus records 49 years and still loving it
When assistant registrar Karen Denton started working at Berkeley at 20, she had one job: to remove incompletes. Now, at 71, she has more responsibilities than she can count and no plans to retire.
Berkeley Talks: Dancer Akram Khan on performing the unimaginable, theater of war
Akram Khan spoke with Cal Performances’ interim artistic director Rob Bailis in the weekly open session of the Arts + Design course Creativity, Migration, Transformation
Meet our new faculty: Kwabena Bediako, chemistry
Bediako's group explores interfacial charge transfer and charge transport in two-dimensional materials and heterostructures
Meet our new faculty: Liana Lareau, bioengineering
Lareau's research uses computational and molecular biology to understand how post-transcriptional regulation leads to robust and flexible control of gene expression
Federal effort to raise Shasta Dam by 18.5 feet is getting some serious pushback
The $1.3 billion project is a favorite of the Trump administration, but the plan is under attack by several entities in California
New My Experience survey seeks better understanding of campus climate
Results of the two-month survey, which starts Monday, will help set the course for the university
Statement reaffirming campus’s commitment to free speech
The following is a statement from UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof: The afternoon of Feb. 19 began like any other on the UC Berkeley campus. Spread across Sproul Plaza were dozens of tables where many
Understanding a dog’s superhero snout
KQED video series features UC Berkeley scientists' dog-sniffing research