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Advice for the next chancellor? Keep it short and win Fabilli Hoffer Essay Prize
Faculty, staff and students are invited to take part in the annual contest, which rewards brevity: Winning entries must be 500 words or fewer
Food pantry, county food bank partner to feed more students
Alameda County Community Food Bank applauds advocacy of Berkeley students
Student attempts first known trek of iconic Patagonia routes in a wheelchair
Alvaro Silberstein, MBA 17, hopes to become the first person to navigate three iconic routes in the Paine de Torre National Park in a wheelchair.
Holiday shopping? Look no further than UC Berkeley
From reusable clothes at the ReUSE store to gardens to grow at home from the UC Botanical Garden to a hand-crafted ceramics from the Berkeley Art Studio, there's something for everyone
Vigil for fire victims marks ‘loss to the world,’ times five
Still reeling from the Oakland warehouse fire that claimed 36 lives — including five people with ties to UC Berkeley — the campus community gathered today for a solemn tribute at Zellerbach Hall
Vigil Thursday for those lost in the Oakland fire
Campus to gather at noon at Zellerbach Hall to honor the memory of all who have been lost, from Berkeley and beyond
Bacterial aphrodisiac sets off mating swarm in another organism
Choanoflagellates, one of the closest living relatives of animals, begin mass mating in response to a chemical signal from nearby bacteria
Campus mourns five killed in Oakland warehouse fire
The official death toll from Oakland’s warehouse fire has been updated to include two UC Berkeley students, two recent graduates and a community volunteer at the campus radio station
Drones help monitor health of giant sequoias
New multispectral cameras mounted on drones can rapidly and repeatedly monitor the health of trees and entire forests
Psychology advisor stays grounded by plunging from planes
Erin Ptaschinski is among 65 female skydivers who just set a world record in vertical formation
Geneticist honored for pioneering work in plants
Michael Freeling has been awarded the McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of gene and genome biology
Three from campus community confirmed as fire victims
A junior majoring in media studies, a recent graduate and a KALX radio station volunteer were among the dozens who perished in the Ghost Ship warehouse tragedy
Wall-jumping robot is most vertically agile ever built
Roboticists at UC Berkeley have designed a small robot that can leap into the air and then spring off a wall, or perform multiple vertical jumps in a row, resulting in the highest robotic vertical jumping agility ever recorded
Comedian Lewis Black on living at intersection of satire, reality
Comedian Lewis Black says is turning to millennials post-Trump, and they "better not f--- up."
Physicist Surjeet Rajendran shares $100,000 New Horizons Prize
The prize for early-career scientists was announced Dec. 4 at the Breakthrough Prize gala
During last period of global warming, Antarctica warmed 2 to 3 times more than planet average
The calculations are in line with estimates from most climate models, proving that these models do a good job of estimating past climatic conditions and, very likely, future conditions in an era of climate change and global warming
Update on the Oakland warehouse fire tragedy
Updated campus information on Oakland warehouse fire.
Bernie Sanders: ‘No compromise’ on bigotry, climate change, democracy
Vermont senator tells overflow crowd at Zellerbach that 'despair is not an option'
Fall arts and design showcase: bringing talent into focus
For the next two weeks, students enrolled in arts and design courses all across the UC Berkeley campus will be showcasing the work they've created this semester in dozens of exhibits, presentations, performances and design reviews.
Institutional collapse, not guns and bombs, is most-cited cause of wildlife declines from war
Breakdowns in institutions, societies and economies during conflicts often prove lethal, according to a new study