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Golden Bears bring home 21 medals from Rio
Present, past and future UC Berkeley athletes took home 21 medals from the Rio Games, including 19 from the swimming competition.
They’re here! Scenes from move-in weekend
Thousands of new students poured into the campus's residential halls over the weekend, arriving with their families in tow to help tote boxes and suitcases — before making their proud and often teary farewells
Best back-to-school freebie? Cal Smart Wallet
The Berkeley Rec Sports and Ziploop innovation is for anyone with an @berkeley.edu email address.
A floating classroom for students
Students get a hands-on education aboard the research vessel Oceanus — and lend their skills to the climate change mission
Residential college redux: Bowles is back
Historic building welcomes a new generation after an 11-year restoration campaign
A new way to immobilize and study complex molecules
Metal organic frameworks provide ideal platform for determining 3D structure of hard-to-crystalize molecules
Berkeley-bound scholar rises from the depths of schizophrenia
Brandon Chuang takes the mental disease he will be studying very personally
IGS poll finds support for retaining death penalty
California voters oppose a ballot measure that would abolish the death penalty and strongly support a competing measure that would streamline procedures in capital cases, according to a new poll by the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley.
Poll: Californians support gun control, marijuana legalization
California voters strongly support both a sweeping gun control measure and a proposition legalizing marijuana on the November ballot, according to a new poll released today by the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley.
CRISPR-Cas9 breaks genes better if you disrupt DNA repair
Simple trick boosts knockout efficiency up to five fold in human cell lines
Berkeley welcomes 10,000 new students for 2016-17
Most of the new students hail from California; about two-thirds are freshmen and one-third are transfers
Chancellor Dirks announces he will step down
He plans to stay in his position at UC Berkeley until a successor is selected and in place
New poll: Californians back extending taxes on wealthy, upping cigarette tax
Institute for Governmental Studies survey finds support for Propositions 55 and 56 on the Nov. 8 state ballot.
Inside the heroic snout of a rescue dog
UC Berkeley neuroscientist Lucia Jacobs is exploring the smell navigation mechanics of tracking dogs as well as smaller animals who use a similar olfactory GPS. Her research is featured in the PBS NewsHour video series, ScienceScope.
Follow ocean-going robots, and their scientists, for 10 days at sea
A team of scientists and engineers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley have just set out on a mission to test a robotic float used to measure carbon dynamics in the ocean.
Murphy, Adrian medal again at Rio
Nathan Adrian and Ryan Murphy already had a week full of memories to take home with them when they took the blocks for the final swimming event of the 2016 Olympics, the 400-meter medley relay. They teamed with Michael Phelps and Cody Miller to bring home the gold.
Berkeley top public university in new ARWU world rankings
Once again, Berkeley is the top public university in the world, and moved up to third place overall, in the new 2016 Academic Ranking of World Universities.
HR chief Jeannine Raymond to retire
After a 40 year career in public higher education, 20 years of that in human resources and the last 10 here at Berkeley, she is stepping down as assistant vice chancellor for Human Resources on Dec. 31.
Second gold for Cal swimmer Murphy in Rio
Already the owner of one gold medal in Brazil, the senior extended the United States' dominance in the 200 meter backstroke with his victory in the final and gave the Americans their sixth consecutive gold medal in the event.