Kate Jastram, an attorney and expert in forced migration with UC Berkeley’s Blum Center for Developing Economies, says it would be detrimental for the U.S. to close its doors to Syrian refugees. Not only would it embolden America’s anti-Muslim reputation, she says, but it would alienate the estimated 3.3 million Muslims already living in the U.S.

American politics, innovative thinkers, artistic luminaries and our annual open house are just a few of the events happening at Berkeley this spring. Serial podcast creator Sarah Koenig talks binge-worthy journalism, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to campus, poets and writers discuss their work and Chancellor Dirks talks with top innovators.

More than half of workers in New York who earned less than $15 an hour between 2011 and 2013 received public assistance, or had a family member getting such help, according to a study released today by Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education.

UC Berkeley's $112 million visual arts center has a prime location in the Berkeley Arts District

The Cal Veteran Services Center is back on campus, having moved from its off-campus home in Stiles Hall to a suite in Hearst Gym.

Growing up amid dry lake beds in China, Baoxia Mi knew that water was not something to take for granted. Now a civil and environmental engineering professor at Berkeley, Mi is pioneering research in cheaper, energy-efficient ways to purify water using graphene.

If you've installed solar panels on your roof, "there’s a good chance someone else has purchased your halo and is wearing it right now." So writes resource economist Severin Borenstein, in a post on the Berkeley Blog.

UC Berkeley researcher Michael Jordan is a champion of integrating statistics and computing to help wrestle Big Data to the ground. He founded co-directed the campus’s Algorithms, Machines and People (AMP) Lab.

Paul Alivisatos, recent recipient of the National Medal of Science, is a nanotech pioneer and entrepreneur

Christopher McKee, UC Berkeley’s interim vice chancellor for research and a professor of physics and astronomy, was honored at last week’s American Astronomical Society meeting with the 2016 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship for lifetime preeminence

Search for differences between matter and antimatter turns to beach-ball science

UC Berkeley researchers have made a major improvement in CRISPR-Cas9 technology that achieves an unprecedented success rate of 60 percent when replacing a short stretch of DNA with another. The improved technique is especially useful

What's behind the current health emergency in Flint, Michigan, where austerity-minded officials switched the local water source, to residents' peril? Stephen Menendian, of Berkeley's Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, looks at the history on the Berkeley Blog.

UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna joined Joseph Biden this morning at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as the vice president promoted a major new U.S. initiative to speed the discovery of cures for

DeCal classes hint at what's trending among Berkeley students

The University of California is asking for feedback on recommendations for a new retirement plan for employees hired on or after July 1, 2016.

As UC Berkeley marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day with an official holiday Monday, the campus's best known photograph of the late civil rights leader is getting a new frame, fit for its place of honor in the newly renovated student union that's named for him.

The same sense of duty that drove student Richard Weir to enlist in the Marines has underscored his dedication to human rights work at Berkeley Law. And now he has won the field's most prestigious fellowship and will soon begin his legal career at Human Rights Watch.

Just last year, researchers were saying there was no end in sight for California’s drought. But things are looking up, with the arrival of El Niño. Berkeley professor and geologist B. Lynn Ingram discusses what the climate could have in store for us.