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Three Berkeley alums win MacArthur ‘genius’ awards

Wed., 2017-10-11 02:50pm
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

Wed., 2017-10-11 11:30am
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

Tue., 2017-10-10 04:34pm
Chancellor sends message of support to students, faculty and staff

Two tiny teammates join Cal women’s basketball team

Tue., 2017-10-10 02:28pm
The California women’s basketball players suddenly have two tiny teammates.

Shafi Goldwasser appointed director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing

Tue., 2017-10-10 01:55pm
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

Tue., 2017-10-10 08:45am
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

Fri., 2017-10-06 09:42am
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’

Thu., 2017-10-05 05:00pm
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?

Thu., 2017-10-05 04:38pm
Platforms that were once expected to democratize dialogue have instead made it harder to listen

Reflecting on Las Vegas, and resources for the campus

Thu., 2017-10-05 01:46pm
Chancellor Christ offers help and assurances in wake of the recent massacre

How some are closing compensation gap for pre-K teachers

Thu., 2017-10-05 09:00am
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

Thu., 2017-10-05 08:00am
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

Wed., 2017-10-04 05:00pm
"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

Wed., 2017-10-04 05:00pm
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

Wed., 2017-10-04 04:38pm
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

Wed., 2017-10-04 04:00pm
“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

Wed., 2017-10-04 02:15pm
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

Tue., 2017-10-03 04:09pm
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

Tue., 2017-10-03 10:01am
Press here for the new cafe on Moffitt Library's fourth floor.

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