Two Berkeley alumni have won MacArthur fellowships — unsolicited, no-strings-attached awards of $625,000 given to exceptionally creative people. The two — Gene Luen Yang, a Bay Area graphic novelist, and Josh Kun, a cultural critic

A new look 100 miles beneath a massive tectonic plate as it dives under North America has helped clarify the subduction process that generates earthquakes, volcanoes and the rise of the Cascade Range in the Pacific Northwest.

An unprecedented collaboration between the Bay Area's three premier research universities

The campus is observing Constitution Day with programs examining the state of voting rights in the United States and one of the nation’s Founding Fathers, President Thomas Jefferson.

The Prison University Project, founded by a UC Berkeley Ph.D. to give inmates in San Quentin greater access to higher education, was named a recipient of this year’s National Humanities Medal.

Physicist Richard Muller proposes that time is created as space is created in the expanding universe

Brita, the nation’s largest water filtration brand, is joining UC Berkeley in a combined effort to increase campus sustainability efforts while offering students and the broader campus community healthier beverage choices.

Researchers find that language and memory are intimately linked, particularly when we hear fill-in-the-blank sentences

Music and politics mix to excite or energize through campaign theme songs, anthems and more. But in many parts of the world, musicians who give voice to opposing views are taking risks.

Berkeley-Haas adjunct professor Nora Silver has won the Aspen Institute’s Faculty Pioneer Award for her course in making social change happen.

The African Alumni Project, a two-year effort to chronicle the life and career trajectories of almost 300 African graduates of six universities in the U.S., Canada and Central America, found that "overwhelmingly, the alumni who participated in the study indicated a deep commitment to Africa and to African development."

The honor recognizes exceptional graduate students in business, computer science, bioengineering and energy science

As more states consider legalizing marijuana, and legal sales soar, Berkeley-Haas is set to publish one of the first business school case studies on a cannabis enterprise

Undocumented student finds a warm welcome on the UC Berkeley campus.

National Science Foundation awards UC Berkeley $9.5 million for experiment to explore ‘cosmic dawn’

A new report from UC Berkeley’s Labor Center identifies ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while ensuring that California’s low-income and working class residents share the benefits of the state’s transition to a low-carbon economy and don't bear the brunt of its costs.

UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education Cathy Koshland issued a statement today in response to federal findings on the accessibility of online course content and lectures.

The deaths of two students in terrorist attacks abroad added to the poignancy of the annual rite.

The 2016 Rupp Prize goes to Carme Pinós, whose designs run from furniture and cultural centers to schools, office towers, urban landscapes and public housing.

Campus retains premier reputation in national survey of academic excellence