The campus's new university librarian, Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, shares early impressions of UC Berkeley, the library and his vision for its future.

Twenty five years ago, Rodney King was brutally beaten by L.A. police officers and video of that encountered went viral. Sandra Bass, assistant dean of students, describes her own encounter with police, related to those events, on the Berkeley Blog.

Ben Bagdikian, former dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and award-winning journalist, author and media critic, died March 11 at his home in Berkeley. He was 96.

Soon after Chancellor Nicholas Dirks arrived on campus in 2013, he posed for a photo in which he held aloft a bright blue UC Berkeley umbrella. The image, he explained Wednesday to a packed auditorium

UC President Janet Napolitano today sent this letter to members of the University of California community: Dear Colleagues: I am writing to outline the proposal for the new retirement program I am bringing to the

Experiments show magnetic bits operating at one-millionth the energy of today's chips

UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks has accepted the resignation of Sujit Choudhry as Berkeley Law dean, effective immediately.

A new Arts + Design Initiative has launched at Berkeley and emphasizes the key role that creativity plays in higher education

A proposal to raise the minimum wage in New York will have large positive effects on living standards and very small effects on employment, a new report says.

Claude Steele, executive vice chancellor and provost of UC Berkeley, sent this message to the campus community today: Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce that after a comprehensive internal search, Professor Benjamin Hermalin has

"We're seeing the birth of a new white supremacist movement in the U.S.," and white liberals and progressives helped that happen, writes Berkeley Blog author Jeremy Adam Smith.

Subcontracting in California property services comes under scrutiny

Leaders of UC Berkeley, the cities of Berkeley and Richmond and East Bay organizations toasted town-gown ties, exemplified by two local education and training programs, at the seventh annual Chancellor’s Community Leaders Breakfast.

Mice who learn by trial and error show rapid rewiring in the frontal brain

Going with personal care products free of endocrine-disruptors makes a difference

In the latest play by the Theater, Dance and Performance Studies department, student actors perform Chavez Ravine, bringing to life a small, 1950s Mexican-American community whose residents were forced from their homes to make way for a new stadium for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

For 15 years, UC Berkeley robotics researcher Pieter Abbeel has been looking for ways to make robots learn. In 2010 he and his students programmed a robot to fold towels. Now, he’s gotten robots to learn from their experience.

University Health Services at UC Berkeley has seen 29 people with noro-like symptoms, three of whom have been confirmed with norovirus. It urges a few basic steps, starting with handwashing, to keep the virus from spreading.

Forget intelligence or wisdom. A muscular physique might just be a more important attribute when it comes to judging a person’s leadership potential, according to a new study co-authored by a professor of management at Berkeley Haas.

Herma Hill Kay was one of the nation’s first female law professors, dedicated her career to fighting for women’s rights under the law and went on to become Berkeley Law dean. Now, she has won a lifetime achievement award from her profession.