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In ‘Great Debate,’ students talk policy, government and … ice cream

Thu., 2017-11-09 02:21pm
Conservative and liberal student groups square off in annual debate.

Puzzling new supernova may be from star producing antimatter

Thu., 2017-11-09 08:20am
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

Wed., 2017-11-08 04:37pm
Four months in the wild challenge, inspire Marine and recent grad Jet Garner

A cellphone-based microscope for treating river blindness

Wed., 2017-11-08 04:00pm
LoaScope helps spot parasitic worms swimming in a drop of blood

Students in ‘la diaspora’ take Puerto Rico relief efforts into own hands

Tue., 2017-11-07 04:00pm
'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

Tue., 2017-11-07 02:25pm
Dan Kammen describes local solutions to clean energy, both in California and Africa

Moral injury explored in Veterans Day documentary at BAMPFA

Tue., 2017-11-07 11:00am
Documentary follows two who served in Iraq on their long, healing trek from Wisconsin to California

Berkeley startup to train robots like puppets

Tue., 2017-11-07 09:50am
Robotics experts train robots by guiding them through a task using virtual reality

Contest deadline near for students with ‘Big Ideas’ for social change

Mon., 2017-11-06 04:00pm
Pre-proposals for the Big Ideas innovation contest are due Nov. 15

Scientists discover potential treatment to stop glaucoma in its tracks

Mon., 2017-11-06 01:00pm
A major step forward in the effort to combat the second-leading cause of blindness

Clark Kerr Award goes to AAU president

Fri., 2017-11-03 02:47pm
Mary Sue Coleman honored for distinguished leadership in higher education

Aspirations on hold, UC students await court ruling on DACA

Fri., 2017-11-03 12:59pm
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

Fri., 2017-11-03 11:00am
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

Thu., 2017-11-02 11:07am
Replace contempt with a warm-heart, speaker suggests.

Tower’s 12 oldest bells, first played a century ago, to be celebrated

Thu., 2017-11-02 10:59am
The first dozen bells installed in the Campanile were first played 100 years ago this week

Bancroft celebrates the Mexican fiesta

Wed., 2017-11-01 04:58pm
¡Viva la Fiesta! The party continues at the Bancroft Library through February 2018.

Climate video series: ‘stillsuits’ for cities

Wed., 2017-11-01 09:39am
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’

Tue., 2017-10-31 05:00pm
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

Tue., 2017-10-31 04:16pm
The duo run the operation out of their Berkeley apartment.

Berkeley economist leads petition drive to fight pervasive misogyny

Tue., 2017-10-31 06:00am
A senior thesis calling out sexism on an economics jobs site spurs a Berkeley economist to lead pushback from across the profession

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