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Advice for the next chancellor? Keep it short and win Fabilli Hoffer Essay Prize

Tue., 2016-12-13 11:01am
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

Tue., 2016-12-13 10:27am
Alameda County Community Food Bank applauds advocacy of Berkeley students

Student attempts first known trek of iconic Patagonia routes in a wheelchair

Fri., 2016-12-09 12:59pm
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

Thu., 2016-12-08 04:00pm
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

Wed., 2016-12-07 04:00pm
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

Wed., 2016-12-07 02:03pm
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

Wed., 2016-12-07 11:34am
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

Wed., 2016-12-07 10:20am
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

Wed., 2016-12-07 08:00am
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

Wed., 2016-12-07 04:20am
Erin Ptaschinski is among 65 female skydivers who just set a world record in vertical formation

Geneticist honored for pioneering work in plants

Tue., 2016-12-06 04:14pm
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

Tue., 2016-12-06 12:21pm
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

Tue., 2016-12-06 11:01am
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

Mon., 2016-12-05 04:00pm
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

Mon., 2016-12-05 12:13pm
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

Mon., 2016-12-05 08:30am
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

Sun., 2016-12-04 02:00pm
Updated campus information on Oakland warehouse fire.

Bernie Sanders: ‘No compromise’ on bigotry, climate change, democracy

Fri., 2016-12-02 04:20pm
Vermont senator tells overflow crowd at Zellerbach that 'despair is not an option'

Fall arts and design showcase: bringing talent into focus

Fri., 2016-12-02 11:09am
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

Thu., 2016-12-01 04:34pm
Breakdowns in institutions, societies and economies during conflicts often prove lethal, according to a new study

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