President Obama has nominated UC Berkeley's Maria Echaveste to become the next U.S. ambassador to Mexico, and if confirmed, she will be the first woman to hold the prestigious post.

The campus's new-music "dream team" is headed to Italy for two concerts featuring works by Berkeley music-composition faculty and alumni at what the ensemble''s founder, Edmund Campion, calls "one of the most visible and important sites for new music today.”

The new president of a university in Armenia is Armen Der Kiureghian, a UC Berkeley civil engineering professor who has taken a leave from campus to pitch in with the collective University of California effort to help build up the American University of Armenia.

A new photo exhibit, timed to help celebrate the Human Rights Center's 20th anniversary on campus, features poignant depictions of the struggles of victims of war, repression and poverty in places ranging from Bosnia, Rwanda, Iraq and Guatemala to the American South.

A panel of experts hosted by UC Berkeley's Center for Latin American Studies will explore “Child Migrants: A Journey of Desperation and Hope,” discussing the contexts of the current controversy around a surge in child migrants from Central America and Mexico, and future prospects.

Economist Gregory Grossman was considered a a towering figure in the study of the Soviet economy who shaped the thinking of generations of scholars.

University Health Services at Berkeley is continuing to monitor the Ebola outbreak in parts of West Africa and keep clinical staff updated on the latest CDC recommendations. No cases of Ebola have been reported in the United States outside of the two people infected in Africa who are being treated in Atlanta.

A new study co-authored by a UC Berkeley public policy professor debunks the idea that cyclones have no long-term, lasting economic impacts, and suggests the urgent need for revamping disaster policy around the world.

The World Health Organization and the U.S. health experts say the risk that Ebola will spread beyond West Africa is extremely low. Still, fear-mongering headlines abound. Epidemiology expert Art Reingold answers questions on Vox make sense of the news.

Some 25 recipients of President Obama's Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders are on campus for a six-week academic institute designed to empower young African leaders and teach civic leadership. The Berkeley program is a partnership between the Goldman School of Public Policy and Center for African Studies. A total of 20 institutions across the country are participating in the program with 500 fellows in total.

Trolling for real-world solutions to support ocean fisheries, the U.S. State Department sponsored a "Fishackathon" at five sites across the country over the June 14-15 weekend. A team from UC Berkeley's School of Information, working out of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, took home the national grand prize for a mobile app designed to help West African fishermen.

As a student at UC Berkeley, Keith Harper envisioned a career that helped his people — indigenous people. His dream was more fully realized this week when he became the first Native American of a federally recognized tribe to earn the post of U.S. Ambassador and began work as the U.S. representative on the United Nation’s Human Rights Council.

Researchers led by UC Berkeley economist Paul Gertler report that early childhood development programs are particularly important for disadvantaged children in Jamaica and can greatly impact an individual’s ability to earn more money as an adult. Their study appears to be the first long-term, experimental evaluation of an early childhood development program in a developing country.

The Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion is awarding nine graduate students grants for summer research that will take them around the world to explore topics such as the relationships of religion to media and politics, underseen global or early religious communities, and religious doctrine and law.

The campus held a festive event May 16 to honor six students from Sub-Saharan Africa earning master's degrees this month — the first graduating cohort from UC Berkeley's partnership with The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program.

King Abdullah II of Jordan came to International House on Tuesday as part of a discussion on entrepreneurship and technology ecosystems, startups and innovation in Jordan and the Middle East.

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People working in buildings certified under LEED’s green building standard appear no more satisfied with their indoor workplaces than those in conventional buildings, new research finds.

What was conceived as a small seminar turned into an overflow event after the English translation of French economist Thomas Picketty's book on economic inequality became a bestseller.