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Enlarged spleen key to diving endurance of ‘sea nomads’
The Indonesian Bajau people spend much of their day underwater, and have adapted to long periods without air by developing spleens half again as large as those of non-diving groups
Campanile peregrine falcon chicks could hatch on Cal Day
The Campanile’s resident peregrine falcon couple could become the lucky parents of new chicks on the biggest day of the year at UC Berkeley
Nine faculty elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Scientists, scholars join more than 4,000 academy members to help solve global challenges.
Imported bullfrogs likely kicked off state epidemic of frog-killing fungus
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology helps track down culprit behind fungus that has devastated frog populations throughout California
Dreamer and more: Cal Performances shows off its new season
Themes of citizenship and women are front and center in what Matias Tarnopolsky calls 'the best season we've done.'
Calaveras Dam fossil trove gives researchers greatest local find in decades
The quality and size of discovery paints a detailed picture of the Bay Area 20 million years ago
In ‘Gone City,’ geographer questions Silicon Valley’s boom times
Geographer's new book deconstructs the Bay Area's remarkable journey from the Gold Rush to its dominance at the top of the tech world
Explore your future at Cal Day 2018
With more than 430 events, UC Berkeley shows off all the things that make it Berkeley on Saturday, April 21
UC Berkeley’s massive egg collection helps project up for possible Webby
Voting is open until Thursday for a best-of-the-Internet Webby award
Drought alters microbiome of plants’ roots
Sorghum study shows drought shifts balance of root microbiome, a finding that could help scientists manipulate crops to withstand climate change
Spring update on the campus budget
Update on the budget from UC Berkeley's top administrators details latest plans to close budget gap
Media advisory: Experts look at Bay Area youth, family homelessness
ATTENTION: Reporters covering housing, city planning social issues, youth and families WHAT: “Confronting Youth and Family Homelessness” is the subject of the Davis Lecture sponsored by the department of city and regional planning at the
Thin film converts heat from electronics into energy
Technology could capture heat from computers, cars and turn it into energy.
Photographer reveals complexities of Native American history, contemporary lives
Native documentarian's photos will be on display Tuesday, April 17, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the in the Multicultural Community Center
Children’s author, alumna Beverly Cleary celebrates 102 years
Residential hall on campus is named for her
Berkeley ecologist selected as a lead author for IPCC report
Patrick Gonzales will lead a chapter in the report.
Environmental Design Archives curator Waverly Lowell to retire in June
Waverly Lowell looks back at two decades at the Environmental Design Archives.
Three UC Berkeley faculty win Guggenheim fellowships
This year's recipients are experts in Native American studies, Chinese history, and child development psychology
Gotanda’s ‘Dream of Kitamura’ redux
In its final performances of the season, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies offers up a remake of playwright Philip Kan Gotanda's surreal and haunting the Dream of Kitamura.
Berkeley a ‘best value’ university in new Forbes rankings
Four UC campuses make the top 10 in annual list of colleges where student get their money's worth