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Berkeley celebrates sustainability at annual summit
UC Berkeley celebrated personal and campus wide sustainability accomplishments on Wednesday during its 15th Annual Sustainability Summit with Chancellor Carol Christ. During the ceremony at Chou Hall in the Haas School of Business, the chancellor
Long distance duet tests how sound travels
A violist and carillonist performed together, but distantly, as part of the Music Now course
Poll: Majority of Californians support immigrant sanctuary protections
California's immigrant sanctuary law has backing from a majority of the state.
Students share art in Belmont Village gallery show
Senior village is featuring student art in its new gallery.
Scalable, cost-effective intervention helps parents improve student attendance, new study finds
Giving parents up-to-date, cumulative information about their kids' school absences can significantly cut truancy, researchers find.
Newsom, Feinstein still favorites in California’s June primary races
The Berkeley IGS Poll looks at the latest sentiments around the June primary races for governor and U.S. Senate.
For Rosa Furneaux, winner of the Dorothea Lange Fellowship, photography begins with trust
"Without trust, you can’t do anything else... it’s about sitting down, hearing people, introducing who you are and being very gentle and open"
Long-sought structure of telomerase paves way for drugs for aging, cancer
The first architectural visualization of human telomerase, a big enzyme complex that tidies up the ends of our chromosomes, represents a breakthrough for drug design
How Ana Mancia is combating intimate partner violence
Mancia, a junior at Berkeley, formed the ASUC Intimate Partner Violence Commission and regularly gives presentations to Bay Area high schools
Chancellor Carol Christ: “The culture has to change”
“Berkeley is a kind of miracle, the University of California system is a kind of miracle,” Chancellor Carol Christ said during a Campus Conversation event on Tuesday. (UC Berkeley video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Stephen
A step toward faster, more accurate breast cancer detection
A new technology being developed by UC Berkeley engineers could dramatically improve the speed and accuracy of early breast cancer detection through the use of microfluidics.
Llamapalooza promises more llamas, more fun
As finals loom, llamas are heading to the rescue, arriving Friday for petting, selfies and even an obstacle course
Did last ice age affect breast feeding in Native Americans?
Tracing the genetics of a distinctive tooth shape in Native Americans, scientists discover link between mutation and the density of female breast tissue
Cal Day 2018 wows and thrills with Berkeley’s best
UC Berkeley strutted its stuff, showing off all that the campus has to offer for students (new, old and incoming), their families and friends, plus faculty, staff and neighbors
Earth Week 2018: an inclusive celebration of environmentalism
From sustainable foods to divesting from fossil fuels, Earth Week at Berkeley spans the broad reaches of sustainability
Cal Day must-see: Octopus mom with thousands of eggs
A rare catch -- an octopus mom caring for thousands of eggs -- will be on display in the kelp forest exhibit in the courtyard of the Valley Life Sciences Building
New Organizational Moonshots course gets students thinking big and bold
At Berkeley Haas, students are taught to get beyond the incremental and to address huge problems, propose radical solutions, and use breakthrough technologies
George Oster, pioneer in applying mathematics to biology, dies at 77
From molecular motors to cell shape-changing,