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Research

11 things UC Berkeley AI experts are watching for in 2026

How will AI disrupt the labor market? What will deepfake videos mean for our understanding of truth? Are we in a bubble, and if so, will the bubble burst?

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Research

UC Berkeley researchers are using probiotics to ‘crowd out’ lung pathogens

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Politics & society

Venezuela strike signals U.S. is ‘serious about reasserting dominance in Latin America,’ UC Berkeley scholar says

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Research

For 21 years, enthusiasts used their home computers to search for ET. UC Berkeley scientists are homing in on 100 signals they found.

Spotlight: Community-Engaged Research

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UC Berkeley is doing hundreds of research projects that go beyond the classroom and into communities. Here’s how.

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UC Berkeley college access program serving 1,500 students cut over ‘equity’ reference

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What is community-engaged research? Watch a professor explain in 101 seconds

Research

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Campus news

Watch how Berkeley research turned coffee spills into a life-saving test

A new technology born at UC Berkeley uses the “coffee-ring effect” to deliver rapid test results for COVID, cancer and more.

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Humanities

From Bob Dylan to Ice Cube: Mapping 60 years of storytelling in pop lyrics

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Law

UC Berkeley students’ human rights research was highlighted in pulled ’60 Minutes’ story

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Campus news

What’s powering these mysterious, bright blue cosmic flashes? Astronomers find a clue.

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Campus news

What new vaccine recommendations mean for parents and children

Arts & culture

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For whom the bells toll: Student harmonizes love of music with law studies

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Come in, sit, stay a while: How alum Sarah Cain invites visitors into her paintings

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Podcasts

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Science of Happiness: The power of a collective pause

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Berkeley Talks: Why kind leaders finish first (according to science)

People

Elizabeth Dupuis

‘Stay curious’: Elizabeth Dupuis closes her final chapter at the UC Berkeley Library

Victoria Hernandez Padilla

From ‘too much’ to just right: How one student found a home at Berkeley

Campus & community

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At Winter Commencement 2025, graduates are urged to advocate for justice and ask world-changing questions

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For 20 years, this UC Berkeley program has helped students who’ve been in foster care succeed

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