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Experts try to untangle an unusual presidential campaign
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
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
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’
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
Campus's counterculture cameos at retrospective of 1960s revolutionary movements
Researchers find climate change already playing major roles
Berkeley researchers point to current climate changes as underscoring a need for adaptation now
Memorial honors slain student Tarishi Jain
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?
A newly discovered stress response pathway relies on fat molecules to mediate cellular health
Anthropologist Elizabeth Colson dies in her beloved Zimbabwe at 99
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
VeHICaL project aims to understand how humans and machines can collaborate safely and effectively
Two professors elected to Royal Spanish Academy
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
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
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
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
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
Study finds that blatantly bigoted communities have health drawbacks
Fasten your goggles: New aquatic center is on its way
Olympic medal-producing aquatics program gets gift of training pool, diving tower
Research shows Head Start pays for itself, pays off for children
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
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
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