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Podcast: Staff director sees great strength in diversity
Sidalia Reel, the director of Staff Diversity Initiatives in the Office of Equity and Inclusion, works to help Berkeley's more than 9,000 staff feel like a valued part of campus
Better planetary management though data science
Sol Hsiang discusses how data, analysis and computing can show us our future in a warming world, and lead us to take action to lessen the impact
Amateur astronomer captures rare first light from massive exploding star
It's the first observation of optical light from the shock breakout in a supernova explosion
Some black holes erase your past
Physicists argue that the world is deterministic, that your past and present uniquely determine your future, but this may not be true inside some types of black holes
Awesome: Cal Overwatch team two-time champions
Esports Bears win second consecutive national championship
Cockroach-inspired robot is no crash-test dummy
DASH robot mimics cockroach's ability to use the energy of its crash to propel itself up and over obstacles
In the wake of #MeToo, student dancers explore power, horror of womanhood
In her new piece, “Bone Worrier,” for the Berkeley Dance Project 2018, choreographer Katie Faulkner attempts to capture this anxiety in a dreamlike performance by an all-female cast of seven dancers
Security for data analytics – gaining a grip on the two-edged sword
EECS researchers Dawn Song and Noah Johnson are using Uber data to developa new approach to balancing privacy and data analysis
Alum helps bring clean water to Kenya town
Ashley Miller — an alumna of the Blum Center for Developing Economies at UC Berkeley — has spent the last five years working to design solutions that will increase access to water
Town halls offer a chance to hear about — and weigh in on — the future of Berkeley
Members of the strategic planning process's four work groups discussed their charges, outlined their progress and took feedback from the campus this week at two town halls
Student forestry club gets hands-on to remake famous Tightwad Hill
“To actually be outside and get your hands in the dirt, that’s fundamental,” faculty advisor says.
CRISPR scissors, Cas12a, enables cutting-edge diagnostics
New DETECTR system analyzes cells, blood, saliva, urine and stool to detect genetic mutations, cancer and antibiotic resistance and diagnose bacterial and viral infections
Six young faculty members named Sloan Research Fellows
Six assistant professors from the fields of computer science, economics, neuroscience and physics have been named 2018 Sloan Research Fellows, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced today. The six are among 126 researchers from across
Arizona-bound Cal Overwatch team to defend championship title
Champion video gamers shoot for second consecutive national win
Sunday (Feb. 18) memorial service for prize-winning biologist Ian Gibbons
Pioneer in studying the motor proteins - so-called molecular machines - that make cells move
Questions to make you fall in love, again
Podcast shows that intimate conversations rekindle romance in longtime couples
Earthquake expert Stephen Mahin passes away at 71
Professor Emeritus Stephen Mahin was pioneering researcher in the seismic safety of large structures.
For comics fan staffer, Black Panther was ‘life changing’
'To see a character like Black Panther, who looked like me,' says Alfred Day, 'who was the king of his whole country and in charge of any room he walked into — that's an incredibly powerful idea'
Cheap, efficient cookstoves are small-tech solution with big payoff
Ashok Gadgil redesigned a simple technology, the wood cookstove, to help women in refugee camps in Darfur, Sudan
Provost Alivisatos: In times of turmoil, how can we keep campus great?
“The financial challenges of today and our vision for where we want to be are very much connected,” top admin says.