UC Berkeley professor Michael Pollan kicks off the popular Edible Education 101 course tonight, and his lecture on the modern food system will be livestreamed starting at 6:30 p.m. Guest lecturers this semester include Mark Bittman and Eric Schlosser.

“Lentil Underground,” a new book by a recent Ph.D. and ongoing researcher at UC Berkeley, makes the case that lentils could help restore American farmland and farmers whose soil and profits have been depleted by decades of industrial agriculture.

Led by Chancellor Nicholas Dirks, a contingent of luminaries from UC Berkeley -- the only public university to be invited to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum -- were in Davos, Switzerland, making the case for the global importance of public higher education

The story of UC Berkeley biologist Tyrone Hayes's research on the damaging effects of atrazine on frogs, and efforts by the herbicide's manufacturer, Syngenta, to discredit him is the subject of a new, short documentary by filmmaker Jonathan Demme that recently debuted on Amazon.

Nicholas T. Ingolia and Elçin Ünal, both assistant professors of molecular and cell biology at UC Berkeley, have been named as two of winners of the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award for early career scientists doing novel research into cancer. The six will share $1.8 million.

California must expand access to energy information if it's going to meet its goal of transforming energy use away from petroleum and toward renewable sources, according to a new report from the UC Climate Change and Business Research Initiative.

SkyDeck, UC Berkeley’s incubator for businesses springing from the work of young, creative researchers, has been around for just two years, and already five young people on two teams it has sponsored have landed spots on Forbes magazine’s latest “30 Under 30” list. A sixth made last year’s list.

What is the brain, and how can we better understand how it works? On the NPR website "13.7 cosmos & culture," UC Berkeley philosopher Alva Noë thinks out loud about an ambitious project to map the brain's system of connections, cell by cell.

UC's Human Resources office has provided information for employees concerned about how Blue Shield of California's contract problems with Sutter Health will affect their medical plans.

The proposed Berkeley Global Campus in Richmond, first announced by Chancellor Nicholas Dirks in October, is the focus of new stories in two important publications covering higher education, the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed.

Experts from a range of fields will assemble at a forum organized by the Institute of Governmental Studies to deconstruct California's 2014 election and explore what may await in 2016.

The flip side of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, the energy time uncertainty principle, establishes a speed limit for transitions between two states. UC Berkeley physical chemists have now proved this principle for transitions between states that are not entirely distinct, allowing the calculation of speed limits for processes such as quantum computing and tunneling.

The Jane K. Sather Campanile at UC Berkeley turns 100 years old this year. A beloved, historic landmark in the Bay Area, it has been part of university history through world wars, paleontological discoveries, new musical styles, protests, rallies and campus celebrations and is home to a 61-bell carillon and five levels of fossils.

What if two years of community-college education were free across the nation? UC Berkeley student Mojdeh Tarighat joins a national conversation about a new proposal, in an op-ed published in the Daily Californian.

Costs of early-childhood services may have climbed nearly twofold for parents over the last 17 years, but most of these workers have overall seen no change in real earnings in the same period, according to research led by UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Child Care Employment.

All UC campuses now have a confidential advocate who works fulltime with survivors of sexual assault and sexual harassment. On the UC Berkeley campus, the post is filled by Mari Knuth-Bouracee, who began work here last fall.

Thanks to historical data preserved in UC Berkeley's libraries, campus botanists have been able to compare tree survey data from the 1920s and '30s with forest service data today. They find a decline in large trees and an increase in the density of small trees in forests throughout the state. The large tree decline seems to be caused by water stress.

As the nation pauses to honor Martin Luther King Jr., marking what would have been his 86th birthday, members of the campus community lend their voices to the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

Is Earth at the dawn of a new geological epoch dominated by human-influenced geologic and environmental change? Anthony Barnosky is part of a group that proposes that this new era, called the Anthropocene, indeed began at the start of the nuclear era with the 1945 Trinity nuclear bomb test in New Mexico.

A team of astronomers has found the closest star yet with cool, Earth-size planets that could have the characteristics - solid surface and lukewarm temperatures - for liquid water and perhaps life. The team includes grad student Erik Petigura, Geoff Marcy and colleagues at the universities of Arizona and Hawaii.