The public can tune in to NPR Thursday morning to hear UC Berkeley's Jack Glaser, a Goldman School of Public Policy professor, discussing racial bias and policing.

Two UC Berkeley librarians, Michaelyn Burnette and William Benemann, have been honored as recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Librarian Award.

The community is invited to an open house on Thursday, Jan. 8, from 6-7:30 p.m. to learn more about UC Berkeley's proposed new Berkeley Way West building, which would house the Graduate School of Education and the Department of Psychology, currently in seismically challenged space at Tolman Hall, as well as the School of Public Health, currently located in interim space in University Hall.

A study led by a UC Berkeley researcher finds that children who slept in the same room as small screens such as smartphones got almost 21 fewer minutes of shuteye a night than those who didn’t. The findings contribute to a growing body of evidence that electronic gadgets in the bedroom interfere with sleep.

UC Berkeley psychologist Fred Theunissen's work on songbirds could help improve hearing aids to allow people to home in on specific sounds in noisy environments, a particular problem for the hard of hearing. He and his graduate students study zebra finches, which are especially adept at listening in crowded, noisy environments, and developed an algorithm for reducing distortion in hearing aids.

In his speech at UC Berkeley's winter commencement, comedian Bill Maher urged students to help save the earth, be free thinkers and make a difference. Watch an excerpt or Maher's full 15-minute address.

As Bay Area restaurants move to replace tipping with a 20 percent service fee, UC Berkeley student Anastasia Yip offers her take on how restaurant workers get paid.

During the holiday break, the Berkeley Art Museum moved out of the striking Bancroft Way building that's been its home since 1970. And it left with the style and panache that the Berkeley community has grown accustomed to through 44 years of art exhibitions, ahead-of-its time programming and events staged there.

Amid the amazing biodiversity of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi lives a 5-gram frog that gives direct birth to tadpoles, without ever laying eggs. This unique reproductive strategy, found in a group of fanged frogs endemic to the island, is described for the first time by UC Berkeley herpetologist Jim McGuire and colleagues from Indonesia and Canada.

Berkeley physicist Steve Boggs leads a new gamma-ray experiment launched over Antarctica on Dec. 28 aboard the first of NASA's new 'super pressure' balloons, which aim to keep experiments aloft for more than 100 days. The experiment, the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI), searches for polarized gamma rays from exploding stars and other cosmic phenomena.

An ambitious plan to use the UC Natural Reserve System to detect and forecast the ecological impacts of climate change in California has received a $1.9 million research award. The proposal will establish a UC-wide Institute for the Study of Ecological and Evolutionary Climate Impacts (ISEECI).

From the increased legalization of marijuana for medical use to the Ebola epidemic to the re-emergence of nearly vanquished infectious diseases preventable by vaccines, 2014 has had more than its share of major public-health stories. Berkeley Wellness offers its list of the Top 10.

During last year’s winter curtailment, UC Berkeley saved 711,000 kWh of electricity, about enough to power 64 households for one month. The Office of Sustainability offers tips for saving energy again as the holiday break starts at the end of the day today.

Marked by a monthlong celebration of the Free Speech Movement and the unveiling of plans for an ambitious new Berkeley Global Campus, 2014 at UC Berkeley was both a year to remember and a time to reimagine the future.

Emeritus Professor of Chemistry Herbert “Herb” Leopold Strauss, an internationally recognized spectroscopist, died Tuesday, Dec. 2, at his home in Berkeley after a long illness. He was 78.

Many of the 9.9 million people in Bangalore, India, never know when they’ll turn on the tap and find water flowing. UC Berkeley graduate student Christopher Hyun is helping to change that.

The goal of Berkeley's new Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity is being set up to map out what the cyber security problem will mean a few years down the road, and to facilitate interdisciplinary research efforts that will make a difference in resolving the threat.

In this video interview, political satirist Bassem Youssef, who made a campus appearance Wednesday, discusses how his life and career changed after the 2011 Egyptian revolution, and shares his thoughts on free speech, student life and food.

In a keynote address at an Oct. 20 UN event highlighting the role of science in bridging nations, UC Berkeley physicist Hitoshi Murayama argued that "basic scientific research is a true peacemaker for humankind." The event celebrated the 60th anniversary of CERN. Murayama also is director of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe in Tokyo.

Senior Alex Berryhill arrived at Berkeley brimming with idealism, imagining a life of "good intentions, poverty action, and public service." A minor in Global Poverty and Practice and involvement with the Blum Center's #GlobalPOV project made her question conventional approaches and seek deeper, more effective answers to poverty. She explains in a new blog post.