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In ‘Great Debate,’ students talk policy, government and … ice cream
Conservative and liberal student groups square off in annual debate.
Puzzling new supernova may be from star producing antimatter
A star that exploded as a supernova at least twice in the past 65 years may be an unusual massive star thought to have existed only in the early universe
Trekking the PCT: A chat with alum and veteran Jet Garner
Four months in the wild challenge, inspire Marine and recent grad Jet Garner
A cellphone-based microscope for treating river blindness
LoaScope helps spot parasitic worms swimming in a drop of blood
Students in ‘la diaspora’ take Puerto Rico relief efforts into own hands
'A lot of us in the diaspora have realized the only way to really reach the folks who are really on the edge right now is to do it yourself,' says undergraduate Pablo Paredes
Climate video series: Bringing power to the developing world
Dan Kammen describes local solutions to clean energy, both in California and Africa
Moral injury explored in Veterans Day documentary at BAMPFA
Documentary follows two who served in Iraq on their long, healing trek from Wisconsin to California
Berkeley startup to train robots like puppets
Robotics experts train robots by guiding them through a task using virtual reality
Contest deadline near for students with ‘Big Ideas’ for social change
Pre-proposals for the Big Ideas innovation contest are due Nov. 15
Scientists discover potential treatment to stop glaucoma in its tracks
A major step forward in the effort to combat the second-leading cause of blindness
Clark Kerr Award goes to AAU president
Mary Sue Coleman honored for distinguished leadership in higher education
Aspirations on hold, UC students await court ruling on DACA
Ten students tell their stories in court documents filed as part of UC's lawsuit to block the program's repeal
Ultrafast magnetic reversal points the way toward speedy, low-power computer memory
Breakthrough that could lead to greatly increased performance and more energy-efficient computer memory and processing technologies
Conservative thinker to Berkeley: Open your heart to new ideas
Replace contempt with a warm-heart, speaker suggests.
Tower’s 12 oldest bells, first played a century ago, to be celebrated
The first dozen bells installed in the Campanile were first played 100 years ago this week
Bancroft celebrates the Mexican fiesta
¡Viva la Fiesta! The party continues at the Bancroft Library through February 2018.
Climate video series: ‘stillsuits’ for cities
David Sedlak, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, says that in the future, cities will need to capture and recycle most of their runoff and waste water
New technology meets ancient instruments in ‘Audible Numbers’
Edmond Campion, chair of UC Berkeley's music department, composed the piece using software based on Pythagorean ratios
Fed up, two UC Berkeley students launch tool to spot Twitter bots
The duo run the operation out of their Berkeley apartment.
Berkeley economist leads petition drive to fight pervasive misogyny
A senior thesis calling out sexism on an economics jobs site spurs a Berkeley economist to lead pushback from across the profession