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Never-before-seen views of elk herds on an incredible journey

Tue., 2017-03-07 11:00am
UC Berkeley professor Arthur Middleton teamed up with a photographer and an artist to follow — and film — elk herds as they migrate over steep mountain passes and ford treacherous river crossings in Yellowstone

UC issues statement on new Trump immigration order

Tue., 2017-03-07 10:09am
In response to a new executive order from President Trump that restricts entry into the United States for people from six countries, the university has issued a preliminary guidance for students, faculty, scholars, employees and other community members who may be affected.

$6 million grant helps expand radio telescope to study ‘cosmic dawn’

Mon., 2017-03-06 09:00am
Moore Foundation funding boosts study of epoch after first stars formed in the universe

Climate change has the potential to alter natural selection, study finds

Fri., 2017-03-03 02:51pm
The study, published in the journal Science, indicates that changes in precipitation patterns influence natural selection worldwide

Like Polaroids come to life, dramatic snapshots of life on the street

Fri., 2017-03-03 11:00am
Inspired by Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses,' the play is made up of a series of vignettes, each a snapshot of a young runaway or sex worker learning the harsh lessons of adolescence through the transformative lens of myth

Woolly mammoths experienced a genomic meltdown just before extinction

Wed., 2017-03-01 04:00pm
The study warns that preserving a small group of isolated animals is not sufficient to stop the negative effects of inbreeding

College of Engineering loses two professors, Karl Hedrick and James Hunt

Wed., 2017-03-01 02:53pm
The College of Engineering this week announced the deaths of Karl Hedrick, a professor of mechanical engineering, and James Hunt, a professor of civil engineering.

Campus message on Course Capture video, podcast changes

Wed., 2017-03-01 01:10pm
Improving accessibility is behind changes to the online content changes, announcement says

Tracking your body, moment to moment

Tue., 2017-02-28 11:11am
A Cory Hall lab has been converted into a high-tech mini-fitness center where researchers track metabolic changes second by second in a substance any good workout produces: sweat.

How a butterfly builds its wings

Tue., 2017-02-28 10:05am
A new video from the California Academy of Sciences shows Berkeley scientists using time-lapse microscopy to show how butterfly wings develop their fragile structures and beautiful colors.

Berkeley still all-time top producer of Peace Corps volunteers

Mon., 2017-02-27 04:00pm
UC Berkeley has sent 3,640 graduates abroad since the program launched in 1961, according to 2017 college rankings released today

Trans and gender-fluid teens left with few ‘safe harbors’

Mon., 2017-02-27 02:00am
New research finds that they face up to three times more abuse at school and at home than their gender-conforming peers

Jordanian princess, a science advocate, awarded a Chancellor’s Citation

Sun., 2017-02-26 04:00pm
An advocate for science as a catalyst for change in the Arab world and the president of Jordan’s Royal Scientific Society, the royal visitor was honored with a Chancellor's Citation proffered by Chancellor Nicholas Dirks.

‘We have a space!’ — Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center opens

Thu., 2017-02-23 10:24am
“Every one of you is a part of history!” shouted out ab, the program development specialist at the African American Student Development center. “We have a center. We have a space to fellowship, a space

Dancing in drag, Trocks toe line between mastery, mockery

Wed., 2017-02-22 03:36pm
The troupe first performed at UC Berkeley’s Cal Performances 40 years ago. They return in March, this time with a new take on two works — 'Swan Lake' (Act II) and 'Don Quixote' — that they first presented at their Zellerbach Hall debut in 1976. They’ll also do a scene from 'La Esmeralda'

Pre-Trump, Gen. James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis at Berkeley

Wed., 2017-02-22 01:21pm
In a 2014 conversation with Harry Kreisler, the future defense secretary explained why "It's critical that we tell our civilian leaders what we think we can, or more importantly sometimes, what we cannot do with the military instrument"

Sloan fellowships awarded to five faculty ‘rising stars’

Tue., 2017-02-21 04:33pm
Scientists Ren Ng, Pierre Simon, Reed Walker, Daniel Weisz and Michael Yartsev receive $60,000 grants to further their research

Trading in the scalpel for a sharper blade

Tue., 2017-02-21 01:56pm
Bakar Fellow Kathy Collins, professor of biophysics, biochemistry and structural biology, is working develop and market a technology to increase the diagnostic power of non-surgical biopsies

Where cutting-edge research methods document the world’s atrocities

Tue., 2017-02-21 01:47pm
UC Berkeley's Human Rights Center runs the world’s first university-based open source investigations lab

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