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MetLife insurance and UC campuses partner for first multicampus benefit program
UC Partnership Programs and MetLife Auto & Home have partnered in a program that provides personal auto, homeowners and renters insurance products to faculty, staff, alumni and students at the Berkeley, Davis and San Diego campuses.
Berkeley alumni discuss challenges of covering an ‘unprecedented election’
Journalism school grads describe the pressures — and potential outcomes — of covering the 2020 election.
Updates on UC Berkeley’s spring 2021 semester schedule
UC Berkeley community gets updates on spring 2021 semester schedule.
For new CSU chancellor, UC Berkeley was a first taste of campus magic
Joseph Castro, who will run the 23-campus system, first fell in love with higher education during his time at Berkeley
UC Berkeley launches pop-up lab to monitor Bay Area sewage for COVID-19
The COVID-WEB project is currently testing approximately 30 wastewater samples a week for 11 agencies throughout the region
Berkeley poll: Most Californians fear disputed election, post-vote violence
Results show 'worrisome signs' of a political system under stress, analyst says.
Re-envisioning community safety at UC Berkeley
Chancellor Carol Christ shared her plans in re-envisioning community safety at UC Berkeley Wednesday.
How compelling photographs can change the course of history
In new book, Berkeley journalism professor compiles ‘Picturing Resistance’ from over six decades of American social movements
Ian Haney López: To combat racism, we need to talk about economic justice
Insightful — and surprising — ideas about race, class and communication from the author of "Dog Whistle Politics" and "Merge Left"
Researchers break magnetic memory speed record
Advance could lead to new generation of ultrafast computer chips that can retain data even when there is no power
Berkeley Talks: How Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ took on a life of its own
Chancellor Carol Christ, a scholar of Victorian literature, joins Manual Cinema's co-artistic director Drew Dir to discuss the collective's presentation of Frankenstein, a co-commission of Cal Performances
New campus COVID-19 campaign reminds community to mask up, distance
Modular approach will let units tailor ads to intended audiences
I’m a Berkeleyan: Sydney Ji on the intersection of disability, culture and gender
Sydney Ji, a former student and current staffer at UC Berkeley, shares about their evolution of self-acceptance and emergence as an activist as a disabled, queer, nonbinary Asian American
New Berkeley course examines 2020 election through the history of American democracy
Big Ideas class engages students in how underlying political systems have impacted American democracy and its elections
Antarctica yields oldest fossils of giant birds with 21-foot wingspans
Two fossils representing a group of extinct birds called pelagornithids are from the largest individuals ever found, with wingspans exceeding 20 feet
To help diversify STEM faculty, Berkeley-led model goes national
New Research University Alliance taps nine top schools to grow pipeline for STEM scholars from underrepresented groups
Pre-election polls are only 60% accurate, Berkeley Haas study finds
We shouldn't be confident, based on polls, about how the election will turn out, says a UC Berkeley researcher.
Meet our new faculty: Chen Lian, economics
Chen Lian is a new UC Berkeley faculty member.
Meet our new faculty: Ricardo Perez-Truglia, business
Ricardo Perez-Truglia is a new member of the UC Berkeley faculty.
Berkeley Public Health announces plans to rename, repurpose former eugenics fund
The fund will be dedicated to projects that foster conversations about the legacy of eugenics and that benefit communities most harmed by the practice