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Court decision on LGBTQ protections an overdue landmark, Berkeley scholars say

Mon., 2020-06-15 05:02pm
Berkeley is recognized nationally as a center of legal, policy and cultural scholarship on LGBTQ rights. Several scholars offered their assessments of Monday’s decision

Racial discrimination ingrained in jury selection, law school report finds

Mon., 2020-06-15 04:06pm
An exhaustive study investigates the history, legacy, and ongoing practice of excluding people of color — especially African Americans —from state juries

Work from home to continue through Jan. 1, with exceptions

Mon., 2020-06-15 11:04am
Eugene Whitlock, chief people and culture officer, and Ben Hermalin, vice provost for the faculty, sent the following message to faculty and staff on Monday:  In the coming months, although the public health crisis will

Structural Racism and COVID19: The Political Divide, Re-Opening the Society and Health Impacts on People of Color

Mon., 2020-06-15 09:14am
Live webcast: Friday, June 26 12–1 P.M. (Pacific) Add to calendar This event will be broadcast live on this page. You can also watch this event live on the UC Berkeley Facebook page. Recent California

Pandemic could decimate environmental, outdoor science education programs

Mon., 2020-06-15 08:00am
Study finds 11 million children at risk of losing access to the educational and health benefits of environmental education

Diluting blood plasma rejuvenates tissue, reverses aging in mice

Mon., 2020-06-15 06:00am
New study suggests that plasma exchange could be the key to unlocking the body’s regenerative capacities

Of virulent viruses and reservoir hosts

Fri., 2020-06-12 11:00pm
As the public health community races to contain the current global pandemic, researchers are working diligently to understand the novel coronavirus

Berkeley Talks: Using peer pressure to fight climate change

Fri., 2020-06-12 09:00am
"When you do something, other people see you do it, and they do it, too," says Robert Frank, an economics professor at Cornell University and author of Under the Influence

Corey Goodman awarded Gruber Neuroscience Prize

Thu., 2020-06-11 08:50am
Goodman shares the prize with two other neuroscientists who showed how the body's growing neurons connect to the proper target

Bakar Fellow Q&A: Building a wearable carbon dioxide sensor

Thu., 2020-06-11 08:00am
Roya Maboudian is creating a wearable sensor to warn people of unhealthy indoor carbon dioxide levels

UC Berkeley supports #ShutDownSTEM and Black Lives Matter

Tue., 2020-06-09 06:15pm
A. Paul Alivisatos, executive vice chancellor and provost, sent the following message to deans on Tuesday: As we briefly discussed earlier today in Council of Deans, tomorrow, Wednesday, June 10 is a national day of

US can reach 90% clean energy by 2035 without higher costs, report says

Tue., 2020-06-09 05:01pm
The report by Berkeley's Center for Environmental Public Policy finds an ambitious move to clean energy is do-able — and could bring broad economic, environmental benefits

How reforms could target police racism and brutality — and build trust

Tue., 2020-06-09 01:56pm
Berkeley social psychologist Jack Glaser is alarmed — though not surprised — by the recent storm of police violence. But he sees paths toward more humane, effective law enforcement

A message from campus leaders: Standing together

Fri., 2020-05-29 05:40pm
We stand in steadfast solidarity with our Black community, two Berkeley leaders write

On George Floyd and the struggle to belong

Fri., 2020-05-29 05:20pm
This is our national ritual every time a black American is killed at the hands of police, writes associate professor Denise Herd

Berkeley study: Protests in Minneapolis, country rooted in systemic racial issues

Fri., 2020-05-29 05:03pm
UC Berkeley Othering & Belonging research shows history of racism, against black Americans, is repeating itself

Pacific Islander Initiative will grow community’s presence on campus

Fri., 2020-05-29 02:11pm
Tongan American staff member builds a campus family and community for Pacific Islanders

Berkeley startup aims to provide credit cards for students, immigrants

Fri., 2020-05-29 12:19pm
Immigrant-led company seeks to provide credit to consumers with no credit score

Berkeley Talks: Thirty-six questions to help us connect when we’re apart

Fri., 2020-05-29 09:00am
A daughter shares how she and her 82-year-old dad with stage 4 lung cancer became closer while remaining physically separated on the Science of Happiness podcast

Searching for quantum weirdness in interactions between light and matter

Thu., 2020-05-28 10:23am
Physicists Alessandra Lanzara and Joseph Orenstein were awarded $1.6 million each to poke and probe new types of materials to see what unusual quantum phenomena pop out

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