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Back to Berkeley on social media 2018
A collection of back-to-school social posts by the campus community
New students, new year at UC Berkeley — in photos
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
A UC Berkeley welcome to new and returning students
From wildfires to Frank Ocean, here are a few cool classes offered this fall
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Basic needs manager, center and website to debut in 2018-19 at UC Berkeley
Forestry economist Peter Berck dies at 68
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
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
Thousands of new bears bring shower totes, notebooks and heaps of anxiety and anticipation
Poor sleep triggers viral loneliness and social rejection
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
First there were diamonds and graphite, then buckyballs and graphene. Now meet schwarzite.
Environmental regulations drove steep declines in U.S. factory pollution
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
‘Topological’ graphene nanoribbons trap electrons for new quantum materials
Blocking sunlight to cool Earth won’t reduce crop damage from global warming
While lowering Earth's temperature reduces heat stress on crops, decreased solar intensity reduces crop yield. They cancel one another.