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Heavily used pesticide linked to breathing problems in farmworkers’ children
New study finds that elemental sulfur is linked to reduced lung function, more asthma-related symptoms and higher asthma medication use in children living about a half-mile or less from farms that use the pesticide
Visualize this: Project shows U.S. magazine evolution
A grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will help uncover a wealth of information about historically significant American magazines.
Young professors receive Early Career Awards from DOE
Lin Lin develops numerical techniques for supercomputer simulations of the properties of new materials
Feeling bad about feeling bad can make you feel worse
Embracing your darker moods can actually make you feel better in the long run, psychologists find
People with mental illness reoffend less if on specialty probation
Study finds that treatment-oriented probation sharply reduces the number of re-arrests.
New eight-day Golden Bear Orientation starts Tuesday
A comprehensive new welcome for incoming students stretches over the eight days before classes start
Rare audio of indigenous languages saved a century later
Berkeley researchers are using a new technology to preserve 78 indigenous languages stored on wax cylinders
Megamovie app makes photographing total eclipse a snap
The app, downloadable free from Google Play or the App Store, automatically snaps photos of the eclipse and helps users upload them for use by scientists
Make way for Move-In Day
Staff and faculty, take note: Move-In Day's on a Monday this year.
Campus to conduct full-scale earthquake drill Aug. 11
The exercise will help Berkeley practice and evaluate the campus's response to the 6.8-magnitude earthquake on the Hayward Fault
Bird-safe streamers in place, peregrine falcon Fiat to leave any day
After peregrine falcon Lux flew into a window on campus and died last month, experts have installed bird-safe streamers to prevent another accident
Twilight observations reveal huge storm on Neptune
Berkeley grad student spies unusually bright storm system while viewing the sky at a time other astronomers avoid: twilight
Climate policies study shows Inland Empire economic boon
A UC Berkeley report finds California climate policies are fueling economic expansion in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
Staffers bring their best selves to campus’s NOW Conference
This year's daylong event was dedicated to helping staff find ways to create a kinder, more inclusive workplace
Gene Brucker, professor of Florentine history, dies at 92
Gene Brucker, an emeritus professor of history at UC Berkeley who is credited with launching a new approach to studying the Florentine Renaissance, died on July 9 at 92
Aug. 16-17 CRISPRcon to focus on societal issues of gene editing
Conference will draw farmers, doctors, patients, environmentalists, consumers, nonprofits, community leaders as well as scientists for a broad-ranging discussion
Climate change already causing suicides in India as crops fail
Most of the world's suicides happen in developing countries, and until now, there's been little hard evidence to help understand why.