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Visionary Award honors three Berkeley intellects shaping the future
Amy Herr, Scott Schenker and Mike Cohen win the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce award as innovators with "imagination and persistence."
Campus statement on announced plans for visits by Yiannopoulos, Bannon
UC Berkeley has responded to public statements that Milo Yiannopoulos and Stephen Bannon made about their plans to speak on campus.
Lotfi Zadeh, inventor of ‘fuzzy logic,’ dies at 96
Engineering and computer science professor pioneered mathematics that mimic human intuition
UC offers guidance to DACA recipients
A letter to the UC community urges DACA recipients to renew permits and seek immigration counsel
Campus statement on food vendor incident
In response to an incident that involved a UCPD officer ticketing a hot dog vendor outside a Cal football game on Saturday, Sept. 9, UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor Scott Biddy released this statement today
Student-designed medical device wins Fast Company award
A student project from Berkeley's Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation aims to lower the cost of diagnosing pneumonia
Hints from hemoglobin lead to better carbon monoxide storage
Carbon monoxide is an insidious poison because it loves the iron in our blood; it pushes oxygen out of iron-based hemoglobin, leading to painful asphyxiation. This affinity for iron comes in handy in a newly
Berkeley scholars talk free speech, finding common ground
What should be considered free speech? How do we cross over an "empathy wall" and establish common ground? Does speech cause harm? These are some of the questions the panel discussed Friday to a packed room
Report outlines steps to implement pollution reduction program
A study from the Goldman School offers recommendations to improve public health and save lives in low-income and minority neighborhoods located near pollution sources.
UC sues Trump administration on unlawful repeal of DACA program
The University of California issued the following statement today (Sept. 8): The University of California today (Sept. 8) filed suit in federal court against the Trump administration for wrongly and unconstitutionally violating the rights of the
Campus details logistics and resources for Ben Shapiro visit Sept. 14
n advance of talk show host Ben Shapiro’s appearance next week at UC Berkeley, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Paul Alivisatos today (Sept. 7) sent out a message detailing campus logistics for the event
Dan Kammen on renewable energy, kids and cars and, yes, I-M-P-E-A-C-H
The professor of energy and public policy recently talked with Vox.com about his resignation, his not-so-hidden message — and, especially, the state of renewable energy in the United States
UC responds to Trump administration’s ‘troubling’ Title IX changes
University of California President Janet Napolitano reiterated the system's commitment to enforce strict sexual harassment policies in the face of a Title IX rollback announced today by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
Alice Waters on free speech, acid and the making of a counterculture cook
One of UC Berkeley's best-known alumnae, who has just published a new memoir, will speak on campus Sept. 7 at the Free Speech Cafe
Emoji fans take heart: Scientists pinpoint 27 states of emotion
The Emoji Movie, in which the protagonist can’t help but express a wide variety of emotions instead of the one assigned to him, may have gotten something right. A new UC Berkeley study challenges a
Robert Goldman wins World Sanskrit Award for 2017
He is recognized for his work on Sanskrit language and literature and for the completion -- under his direction -- of the seven-volume, 5,000-page translation and annotation of the monumental Sanskrit epic poem the Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki
On Sept. 18, campus to remember those lost in the last year
UC Berkeley’s annual memorial ceremony honoring members of the campus community who have died in the past year will take place on Monday, Sept. 18. Under open skies, from noon to 1 p.m., the memorial
Berkeley stands with its undocumented students
The campus community unites to support students enrolled in DACA following today's announcement by the Justice Department that it has ended the program
UC Berkeley: We stand with our undocumented students
Three UC Berkeley administrators responded to President Trump's decision to end the DACA program with a strong message for support for undocumented students