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Back to Berkeley on social media 2018

Sun., 2018-08-19 05:00pm
A collection of back-to-school social posts by the campus community

New students, new year at UC Berkeley — in photos

Sun., 2018-08-19 05:00pm
It's been a whirlwind week — with 8,800 new students finding their way and meeting new people

Best wishes from Chancellor Christ at the start of academic year

Fri., 2018-08-17 02:33pm
A UC Berkeley welcome to new and returning students

From wildfires to Frank Ocean, here are a few cool classes offered this fall

Fri., 2018-08-17 01:43pm
Want to research with a Nobel laureate or think about the art of migration? Those are a few among the many courses offered this fall

Social welfare dean Edleson stepping down

Fri., 2018-08-17 12:05pm
After seven years as dean, he will resume his full-time faculty position at the end of this academic year

New cafes, coffee spot, tavern sprout on campus

Thu., 2018-08-16 05:00pm
Highlights include five new businesses from La Cocina's, a food incubator that supports women and immigrants

UCPD chief offers safety tips and campus resources

Thu., 2018-08-16 02:30pm
Being attentive to your surroundings, traveling in groups and using the campus's night safety services are some of the safety tips given by UCPD Police Chief Margo Bennett

Berkeley top U.S. public university in new ARWU rankings

Thu., 2018-08-16 12:01pm
New global rankings place UC Berkeley at the pinnacle of public universities on the U.S. and fifth overall in the world.

Watch new students form giant ‘150’ at Bear Affair

Thu., 2018-08-16 12:00pm
Thousands of new students came together at California Memorial Stadium last night to form a giant "150" on the field as part of the weeklong Golden Bear Orientation

Interactive data explorer offers in-depth look at California’s low-wage workforce

Thu., 2018-08-16 09:30am
A new interactive data explorer from the Labor Center at UC Berkeley offers an in-depth look at the people who make up California’s low-wage workforce. The analysis finds that one in three (32 percent) working

Berkeley Haas students’ globe-trotting education

Wed., 2018-08-15 02:13pm
The GNAM program allows graduate business students to study abroad, joining students from around the world for a week of lectures, discussions, field trips and cultural immersion

New semester, new efforts to fight student hunger

Wed., 2018-08-15 10:00am
Basic needs manager, center and website to debut in 2018-19 at UC Berkeley

Forestry economist Peter Berck dies at 68

Wed., 2018-08-15 09:30am
Widely known as the world’s foremost forestry economist, he also served on the UC systemwide Academic Senate and chaired the task force that hired the first faculty at UC Merced

GBO, helping new students get their bearings, kicks off today

Tue., 2018-08-14 05:00pm
Nearly 9,000 new students — 6,100 first-years and 2,700 transfers — will hit the ground running, getting to know the campus and the Bay Area before classes start next week

Thousands find new home at Berkeley on move-in day

Tue., 2018-08-14 02:13pm
Thousands of new bears bring shower totes, notebooks and heaps of anxiety and anticipation

Poor sleep triggers viral loneliness and social rejection

Tue., 2018-08-14 08:00am
People found sleep-deprived individuals to be more socially unattractive, and felt lonelier after interacting with them.

Long-sought carbon structure joins graphene, fullerene family

Mon., 2018-08-13 12:00pm
First there were diamonds and graphite, then buckyballs and graphene. Now meet schwarzite.

Environmental regulations drove steep declines in U.S. factory pollution

Thu., 2018-08-09 06:00am
Pollution from U.S. manufacturing fell by 60 percent between 1990 and 2008 primarily because manufacturers adopted cleaner production methods in tandem with increasingly strict environmental regulation

Tying electrons down with nanoribbons

Wed., 2018-08-08 10:00am
‘Topological’ graphene nanoribbons trap electrons for new quantum materials

Blocking sunlight to cool Earth won’t reduce crop damage from global warming

Wed., 2018-08-08 10:00am
While lowering Earth's temperature reduces heat stress on crops, decreased solar intensity reduces crop yield. They cancel one another.

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