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Campus & community

After life as refugees, these UC Berkeley students strive to tackle global problems

“The only way to beat ignorance is through education,” said one of the students in the Robinson International Scholars Program, which supports students from sub-Saharan Africa.

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Campus & community

UC updates on federal policy issues

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Politics & society

Berkeley Talks: Does democracy work?

Assistant professor Asta Mønsted does fieldwork in Greenland, pausing to take notes while crouched in front of a mound with large rocks in it.

Campus & community

Asta Mønsted, a specialist in prehistoric archaeology, reveals Greenland through the Inuit oral tradition

Spotlight: LA wildfires

After the Palisades Fire, student Max Rodman looks at the rubble that once was his family home. His knee is wrapped because he was recovering from surgery.

After the LA wildfires, stories emerge at UC Berkeley of great loss, support and strength

Smoke emerges from forested hills. In the foreground, two fire trucks aim streams of water at a vulnerable home. Overhead, an aircraft releases a plume of red flame retardant chemicals.

Is the Bay Area prepared for major wildfires?

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Health, housing and the path ahead: UC Berkeley researchers on the Los Angeles fires

Research

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Awards

Six young faculty members named Sloan Fellows

The awards honor early career researchers who have demonstrated innovation and creativity

Politics & society

Study finds persistent spike in hate speech on X

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Research

In pursuit of a poison frog — and a culturally appropriate name

UC Berkeley professor Noah Whiteman.

Research

Watch a professor explain the evolutionary war that gave us caffeine

A person is pictured holding their arm above a table. A device is strapped to the back of the person's wrist and hand, and the device is grasping a yellow tennis ball.

Mind & body

New device helps people with spinal cord injuries grasp large, heavy objects

Arts & culture

Two actors, who play Jinzo and Catherine in the opera Both Eyes Open, kneel together, holding hands

For 50 years, he’s written about the Japanese American internment. Now, he’s turning to opera.

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This BAMPFA documentary series explores the unseen side of climate change

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Podcasts

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Berkeley Talks: The transformation of US medical debt collection

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Berkeley Voices: We learn what to fear. Can we unlearn it?

People

A collage showing headshots of Stuart Russell, Kristin Persson, David Schaffer, Victoria Coleman and Margaret Torn.

Five UC Berkeley faculty named to National Academy of Engineering

Arman Jaffer

20 UC Berkeley alumni, students and faculty shine on Forbes 30 Under 30 list

Campus & community

Author Amy Tan is outdoors, wearing warm clothes, binoculars and holding a sketch book where she makes drawings and notes.

Amy Tan archive lands at UC Berkeley, offering a bird’s-eye view of a singular literary life

Two people wearing UC Berkeley scoop dirt with golden shovels.

New Engineering Center to be named after UC Berkeley alumni Michael and Janelle Grimes

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