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Livestream: Watch campus town hall on safety at 1 p.m.
Watch livestream of campus town hall on safety starting around 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28 A Town Hall meeting is being held at 1 p.m. today (Friday, October 28) to discuss security updates following a
Nuts about squirrels: A Q&A with Mikel Delgado
Mikel Delgado on her road from punk and pigeons to cats and squirrels
U.S. Energy Department honors Berkeley for innovative energy-saving
DOE cited Jacobs Hall, which opened last year as the home of the interdisciplinary Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, for achieving 65 percent energy savings
Berkeley again one of top 50 green colleges
Climate action planning, bike-friendly policies, other transportation options, green building standards are all cited in Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges
Berkeley ranked fourth in the world by US News
New global rankings of the top 1,000 universities are published by U.S. News & World Report.
$1.5 million to study language development, via bats
Neuroscientist Michael Yartsev will study the neurobiological basis of language learning in the small mammals' brains with the aim of helping crack the mysteries of language disorders.
Breakthrough Listen to search for intelligent life around weird star
With new instruments on the Green Bank Telescope, UC Berkeley researchers look for intelligent signals from Tabby's star
Campus invited to weigh in on the selection of a new chancellor
Four open forums will be held, starting Thursday, where the campus community can weigh in on what qualities they'd like to see in the next UC Berkeley chancellor.
How Berkeley-Haas helped a surgeon do his job better
Leadership communications skills, taught at Haas to 25 doctors, nurses and other hospital staff, improved operations in a busy pediatric operating room
Open enrollment information sessions planned
Open Enrollment for health and welfare benefits at UC Berkeley opens Thursday, Oct. 27; campus Human Resources representatives will hold several information sessions:
Driving mosquito evolution to fight malaria
Combining insect repellents with insecticides could harness evolution to help fight malarial mosquitoes
New bacteria groups, stunning diversity discovered underground
A bacterial bonanza comes from reconstructing the genomes of microbes in sediment and groundwater samples from an aquifer in Colorado
Wildfire management vs. suppression benefits forest and watershed
Experiment in Yosemite National Park shows that wildfire management can produce an ecosystem more resilient to fire
Campus marks national Food Day with a week of activities
Food Day, a national event, is Oct. 24, but at Berkeley, a hub of food-related work, it lasts all week.
A day in the life of the Campanile
Take a ride up the elevator in Berkeley's beloved clocktower, where the views are amazing and the bells are loud.
Americans battle fascism in musical Heart of Spain
In the latest performance from Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, student actors tell the harrowing story of a group of volunteers from the U.S. who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War.
Long-term, hi-res tracking of eruptions on Jupiter’s moon Io
Results from Keck and Gemini telescopes' ongoing study of Io's volcanic activity
Lab frog DNA shows what happens when genomes collide
The African clawed frog, the most common amphibian in research labs today, got double the number of genes when two species hybridized 15-20 million years ago
‘Rigging the election’ — rhetoric vs. reality
In recent weeks, Donald Trump has suggested that the electoral system is "rigged" or could be hacked to manipulate the outcome of this year’s campaign for the White House. But Betsy Cooper, executive director of the Center for Long-term Cybersecurity at UC Berkeley, says it’s highly unlikely a hacker could shift the victory from one candidate to the other. What we should really worry about, she warns, is a much bigger risk.
Campus hosts Canada’s ambassador to the U.S.
David MacNaughton discussed a range of issues including Canada's national identity, its energy and natural resource policies, the country's treatment of Syrian refugees and its international policy agenda under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau