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California Alliance improving pipeline to the professoriate

Tue., 2018-03-13 11:00am
A conference at Berkeley this week will showcase the promising results of efforts funded by the National Science Foundation

Saba Mahmood, scholar of modern Egypt, loses battle with cancer

Tue., 2018-03-13 09:26am
Saba Mahmood made pathbreaking contributions to contemporary debates on secularism, stimulating new ways of understanding religion in public life and contesting received assumptions about both religion and the secular

Kamala Harris to give UC Berkeley’s 2018 commencement address

Tue., 2018-03-13 06:00am
The daughter of two UC Berkeley alumni "embodies a lot of the ideals" of the campus

Harvard art historian to speak on art in a time of crisis

Mon., 2018-03-12 05:00pm
Townsend Center for the Humanities brings Joseph Koerner to Berkeley for a lecture and symposium on art's reaction to a state of siege

‘We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re in the Public Record!’

Mon., 2018-03-12 03:43pm
A new exhibit in Doe Library’s Brown Gallery, starting Thursday, brings to life stories from the LGBTQ movement through government documents, art, posters and other materials from the UC Berkeley Library’s collections

Podcast: Creating the world you want, by seeing a world that’s possible

Mon., 2018-03-12 03:40pm
Derrika Hunt, a Ph.D. student in education, takes girls of color on trips to new countries to empower them to change their own lives and communities

How to make space molecules

Fri., 2018-03-09 08:00am
Berkeley researchers demonstrate how complex hydrocarbons like pyrene can form around hot giant stars

‘Face to Face’ opens at the Hearst

Thu., 2018-03-08 04:00pm
Fourteen undergraduates co-curated a new exhibition at the Hearst Museum, exploring faces through time and different cultures.

Economist DeLong rips Trump tariff plan

Thu., 2018-03-08 01:38pm
In a column for Project Syndicate, economist Brad DeLong equates Trump's tariff ideas with a new tax on U.S. consumers and export industries

How brightly colored spiders evolved on Hawaii again and again … and again

Thu., 2018-03-08 09:01am
Stick spiders with similar traits live on different Hawaiian islands but aren't each other's closest relatives; they are a rare instance where a physical form has evolved separately on each island, according to a new study

Big Give today: Make Berkeley moments possible

Wed., 2018-03-07 09:00pm
The campus's annual online fundraising drive lasts until 9 p.m. PST Thursday, March 8

Sinking land will exacerbate flooding from sea level rise in Bay Area

Wed., 2018-03-07 11:00am
New satellite measurements show that areas around the Bay at risk of inundation could be twice earlier estimates

Berkeley Haas ranks No. 2 in U.S. for women MBAs, and No. 3 in the world

Tue., 2018-03-06 03:21pm
Gender pay gap closed; alumnae earn 3 percent more than alumni three years after graduating

A way to grow plants with less water

Tue., 2018-03-06 10:04am
Researchers at UC Berkeley have discovered a key protein that improves the efficiency of photosynthesis, reducing water use by 25 percent

Brown fat flexes its muscle to burn energy — and calories

Tue., 2018-03-06 09:19am
Its cells stiffen like a muscle when activated, and now UC Berkeley scientists have discovered why — and say it could be a target for weight-loss drugs

Ottoman Empire expert wins residential fellowship

Mon., 2018-03-05 04:00pm
As one of the 2018 Burkhardt Fellows, the history department's Christine Philliou will pursue additional research on the Ottoman Empire.

How to improve health care affordability in California

Mon., 2018-03-05 11:20am
California can do an even better job in terms of making health care affordable and accessible, a new report says.

Students take their case for more funding to Sacramento

Mon., 2018-03-05 11:06am
Hoping to inspire — or at least push — state legislators to reinvest in higher education, students from UC Berkeley and other California campuses spoke before the Assembly Budget Committee

Berkeley alum uncovers mystery of John Muir’s Sierra Nevada hut

Fri., 2018-03-02 11:24am
From the Bancroft Library to the high passes of the Sierra, a search for the story

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