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Berkeley perk: Borrow some Chagall for your cube, living room
UC Berkeley's Graphic Arts Loan Collection offers up art to students, staff and faculty
Carla Hesse relinquishing L&S administrative posts
After serving in senior administrative roles within the College of Letters and Science for a decade, she will return to her full-time faculty position next summer
Color-shifting lizard shows how a new environment alters your genes
A century-old theory about adaptation has now been demonstrated in a population of dark-colored lizards adapted to live on a desert lava flow
Chinese, California policymakers share sustainability tactics
Experts from world's second- and fifth-largest economies put their heads together in advance of global climate summit
Regret is a gambler’s curse, neuroscientists say
What goes through a gambler’s mind after she’s placed her bet? It’s not just the anticipation of a big payoff, or doubts about the wisdom of her bet. It’s also regret about previous bets, both
Campus honors those lost in the last year
Annual event remembers deceased students, staff and faculty
Blackwell Hall is officially dedicated to late statistics professor
Campus leaders gather to celebrate new building named in honor of the first black professor to win tenure, a preeminent statistician
College of Environmental Design Dean Jennifer Wolch to step down
The first woman to lead CED, she will remain at Berkeley as a faculty member
Stereotypes measurably influence how we treat each other
Researchers have built a computational model that can predict the degree to which we discriminate against one another based on social stereotypes
Gut bacteria’s shocking secret: They produce electricity
Electrogenic ability may be important in how bacteria infect humans, or in how they ferment cheese and yogurt
Meet our new faculty: Semyon Dyatlov, mathematics
His focus is microlocal analysis, which is the mathematical theory behind classical/quantum, or wave/particle, correspondence.
What kind of person donates a kidney to a stranger?
Spurred by tragedy, UC Berkeley staffer gives her left kidney to save a life
UC vows to protect groundbreaking discovery despite court decision
UC responds to Court of Appeals decision that affirms patent board's finding of no interference
Meet our new faculty: Geeta Anand, journalism
Her areas of expertise are Investigative reporting and narrative non-fiction
The power of the first day of school, and a big thank you
The chancellor chats about the power of the first day of school, incoming students and the staff who put so much work into helping them make Berkeley their new home
Saxenian stepping down as School of Information dean next year
In three terms as I School leader, AnnaLee has transformed Berkeley's newest professional school
AI helps track down mysterious cosmic radio bursts
Using machine learning techniques, Breakthrough Listen researchers have been able to find many more fast radio bursts from a repeating source
Court denies UC appeal, allowing issue of key CRISPR patents
UC's appeal of CRISPR-Cas9 patent decision denied, allowing issuance of patents to both UC and the Broad Institute
Diamond dust enables low-cost, high-efficiency magnetic field detection
The discovery will prove useful in a broad range of applications - from medical devices, ton spotting rare earth minerals from the air to improving cell phone navigation
UC dominates new U.S. News ranking of public universities
The University of California dominates the latest ranking of public universities from U.S. News and World Report, claiming six spots in the top 12 and seven in the top 30.