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Three Berkeley alums win MacArthur ‘genius’ awards
Fiction writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, photographer and artist Trevor Paglen and opera director Yuval Sharon earned the coveted awards for exceptional creativity
Fever in early pregnancy linked to birth defects, animal study shows
Fever itself, not its cause, alters development of heart and jaw from three to eight weeks pregnancy
Support, resources offered to all affected by wildfires
Chancellor sends message of support to students, faculty and staff
Two tiny teammates join Cal women’s basketball team
The California women’s basketball players suddenly have two tiny teammates.
Shafi Goldwasser appointed director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
The Turing Award-winning computer scientist will lead exploration of the limits of computation.
Debut of new video series on Berkeley’s climate change impact
William Collins examines the key culprits in climate change: carbon dioxide and “black carbon” from ordinary diesel combustion
$13.4 million to build next-gen MRI brain scanner at UC Berkeley
With 20 times better resolution, fMRI can zoom in on regions involved in a single function
Black Lives Matter leader: ‘In the fight of our lives against fascism’
In the fight against fascism, we need every tool we can get, says BLM leader Alicia Garza.
Scholars debate: Does social media help or hurt free speech?
Platforms that were once expected to democratize dialogue have instead made it harder to listen
Reflecting on Las Vegas, and resources for the campus
Chancellor Christ offers help and assurances in wake of the recent massacre
How some are closing compensation gap for pre-K teachers
Researchers examine how some states and cities are working to reduce the compensation gap for early childhood education teachers.
$1.5 million ‘New Innovator’ grants to two young faculty members
High-risk, high-reward grants to explore autophagy and transcription factors and their relationships to disease
Public health major finds calling in post-quake Mexico
"We should all love what we do" and have a positive effect on the world, says Juan Medina-Echeverria
Schools poll: Californians worry about tougher federal immigration enforcement, favor less stress on tests
California voters reveal a compassionate streak in a new poll on K-12 school issues.
Ask Me Anything — Berkeley Law dean answers questions on Reddit
Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, an expert on constitutional law, took questions on free speech, hate speech, search and seizure, Citizens United and his school’s hallway water fountain this week when he sat down for
Renowned civil rights lawyer Thelton Henderson to mentor at Berkeley Law
“It fits perfectly with what I’m passionate about: working with students and helping young people find their path… Mentorship is important to me because it was important for me"
UCPD chief sits down for coffee with the community
Some 50 members of the community stopped by to chat with UCPD Chief Margo Bennett and city of Berkeley Police Chief Andy Greenwood on National Coffee with a Cop Day
Berkeley alum Barry Barish awarded 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
Barish, who obtained his B.S. and Ph.D. from Berkeley, was one of the leaders of the LIGO team that discovered gravitational waves in 2015
Press, a library cafe with a new look
Press here for the new cafe on Moffitt Library's fourth floor.