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Experts try to untangle an unusual presidential campaign

Mon., 2016-09-12 11:00am
From George Washington to a presidential candidate like Donald Trump, experts examine American presidential politics.

How robotic floats coaxed secrets of climate change from the ocean

Mon., 2016-09-12 10:45am
After 10 days at sea, the research vessel Oceanus is back in port and the team of Berkeley Lab and Berkeley scientists, plus students, isassessing the results of their mission: to fine-tune robotic floats capable of measuring carbon cycles in the ocean.

In startup sweepstakes, it’s Cal vs. Stanford

Fri., 2016-09-09 03:17pm
Latest analysis shows world's top universities for entrepreneurs are Stanford and Cal

City of San Francisco and UC Berkeley to continue collaborating on ‘smart cities’

Fri., 2016-09-09 02:59pm
This year’s bid by San Francisco and UC Berkeley to win the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Smart City Challenge failed, but the momentum generated by the collaboration has resulted in an agreement between the city

Berkeley’s ’60s radical roots show in major UK exhibit

Fri., 2016-09-09 12:46pm
Campus's counterculture cameos at retrospective of 1960s revolutionary movements

Researchers find climate change already playing major roles

Thu., 2016-09-08 01:35pm
Berkeley researchers point to current climate changes as underscoring a need for adaptation now

Memorial honors slain student Tarishi Jain

Thu., 2016-09-08 12:00pm
Student killed in Bangladeshi cafe was remembered at reception held by the Institute for South Asia Studies

Can some types of fat protect us from brain disease?

Thu., 2016-09-08 09:00am
A newly discovered stress response pathway relies on fat molecules to mediate cellular health

Anthropologist Elizabeth Colson dies in her beloved Zimbabwe at 99

Thu., 2016-09-08 09:00am
Elizabeth Colson's work on forced displacement, migration, development and more focused on Africa, but had global impacts.

$4.6 million grant to improve human control of automated cars, drones

Thu., 2016-09-08 08:30am
VeHICaL project aims to understand how humans and machines can collaborate safely and effectively

Two professors elected to Royal Spanish Academy

Wed., 2016-09-07 02:21pm
Jerry Craddock and Charles Faulhaber, both professors emeriti of Spanish and former chairs of UC Berkeley's Department of Spanish and Portuguese, have been elected to join 100 scholars and researchers as foreign members.

A resurgence of ‘redneck’ pride, marked by race, class and Trump

Wed., 2016-09-07 02:18pm
In a commentary, linguist Geoffry Nunberg explores "redneck" and "other derogative words that have been used to describe Trump supporters and what those words say about the class conflicts that Trump's campaign has brought to the surface."

An update on sexual harassment and violence prevention

Wed., 2016-09-07 10:45am
Chancellor Nicholas Dirks, Interim Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Carol Christ and Carla Hesse, chair of the Chancellor's Senate/Administration Committee on Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment, sent a message to the UC Berkeley community today.

Campus names vice provost for academic and space planning

Tue., 2016-09-06 11:00am
EECS professor Tsu-Jae King Liu will serve as vice provost for academic and space planning

In search of energy-efficient comfort through ‘smart’ ceiling fans and thermostats

Tue., 2016-09-06 10:30am
A research team led by the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for the Built Environment (CBE) will develop ways to integrate commercially available “smart” ceiling fans and communicating thermostats, and to evaluate how they may

White racism linked to fatal heart disease for blacks and whites

Tue., 2016-09-06 10:00am
Study finds that blatantly bigoted communities have health drawbacks

Fasten your goggles: New aquatic center is on its way

Fri., 2016-09-02 08:00am
Olympic medal-producing aquatics program gets gift of training pool, diving tower

Research shows Head Start pays for itself, pays off for children

Thu., 2016-09-01 04:16pm
Berkeley – Expanding Head Start is good public policy and will pay for itself, according to new research by faculty in the University of California, Berkeley’s economics department and Goldman School of Public Policy. According

Boxer gives congressional papers to Bancroft, launches speaker series

Thu., 2016-09-01 02:00pm
California senator is donating more than two decades of her congressional papers to UC Berkeley, and will be the first speaker in the new Barbara Boxer Lecture Series on campus.

Campus to remember those lost in the past year

Thu., 2016-09-01 12:48pm
With a bagpiper and the release of white doves, the campus will hold a solemn gathering in memory of UC Berkeley staff, students, faculty, emeriti and retirees who passed away during the last year. The

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