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Development Engineering awarded $3 million from National Science Foundation
The NSF awarded $3 million to UC Berkeley’s Development Engineering program to train graduate students to find innovative solutions to food, energy and water challenges in developing countries.
Election 2016 — the view from Berkeley
A full page of election coverage from Berkeley News and the Berkeley Blog
New Opportunity Lab to focus on policy for poverty, inequality
Berkeley economist Christina Romer thinks new Opportunity Lab's "good, policy-oriented research” can help solve current political dysfunction.
In the year of Trump, student Republicans at odds
At UC Berkeley, maintaining party loyalty is harder than ever for young conservatives
Physicist Marvin Cohen to receive 2017 Franklin Medal
University Professor honored for explaining and predicting the properties of new materials
Campus offers grants, inspiration to combat sexual violence
UC Berkeley will award 10 mini-grants of up to $2,500 each for community-based initiatives that help change social norms and end sexual violence and harassment, part of a series of events and activities planned this month on the topic
Where to watch the final presidential debate
The public is invited to watch Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump face off in their final debate, at UC Berkeley's BAMPFA or at the Institute of Governmental Studies
Campus gets ready for the big one, with Great ShakeOut on Thursday
At 10:20 a.m., sirens will signal the beginning of a campuswide exercise to sharpen readiness for a big earthquake.
British historian sees similarities in Brexit battle, U.S. presidential contest
Niall Ferguson finds parallels with the current U.S. presidential campaign.
Four UC Berkeley scientists receive prestigious NIH awards
Four UC Berkeley scientists have been recognized as innovators in their fields through new research grants awarded by the NIH.
International Archaeology Day
It's International Archaeology Day every day at UC Berkeley.
BAMPFA to solicit ideas at Monday town hall
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is inviting suggestions from BAMPFA members, the community and its partners about goals to incorporate into its strategic plans through 2025.
Four projects garner $1.7 million from federal BRAIN initiative
Grants will help develop new imaging and sensing technologies
Chancellor’s Community Partnership Fund opens application process
Up to $276,000 in grants is available this year for innovative campus-community partnerships to improve the quality of life for Berkeley residents, thanks to the Chancellor’s Community Partnership Fund.
This time, motherhood, millennials help make Hillary run
In this year’s presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton has focused on the importance of motherhood and families. But this hasn’t always been Clinton’s public persona. Professor of history emerita Paula Fass looks at why Clinton is focusing on motherhood, and whether it will be effective.
UC Berkeley to work with San Francisco to relieve traffic congestion
$11 million grant from U.S. Department of Transportation to help the city better manage traffic
A ‘Deep Look’ at frustrated squirrels and randy spiders
KQED Science's Deep Look series recently profiled the behavioral studies of two UC Berkeley graduate students
An operatic Dream of the Red Chamber
UC Berkeley recently welcomed a distinguished alumnus, playwright and director Stan Lai, to campus for a series of special events in honor of his directorial work on the San Francisco Opera’s premiere of Dream of
Genome engineering paves way for sickle cell cure
Repairing the sickle cell mutation in stem cells holds promise for new treatment
UC previews changes for Open Enrollment, coming soon
The annual benefits sign-up period opens Thursday, Oct. 27.