Berkeley News

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Campus & community

Campus free speech is essential for 'marketplace of ideas,' leaders say

Chancellor Carol Christ spoke with Condoleezza Rice about the college classroom as a marketplace for ideas and how that space for sharing is increasingly breaking down.

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Research

UC Berkeley will manage $300 million NASA mission to map the UV universe

UltraViolet EXplorer (UVEX), led by Caltech and managed by UC Berkeley, is expected to launch in 2030

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Law

More than 120 protesters blinded by Iranian agents, probe confirms

UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center says the victims, most aged 30 and under, suffered partial or full loss of sight in the government crackdown on protests demanding women’s rights

Four speckled, rust-colored eggs sit atop the UC Berkeley falcons' gravel nest atop the Campanile. They are very close together, with two of the eggs touching.

Campus & community

UC Berkeley falcons Annie and Archie welcome four eggs to their nest

Cal Falcons warns drones to stay away from the tower, a sensitive wildlife habitat.

Spotlight: Innovation

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A history of innovation: Berkeley entrepreneurs, companies that changed the way we live

A blue, red, orange and pink montage of photos highlighting different company founders and cultural movements.

A history of innovation: Berkeley founders, movements that influenced our culture

Carol Mimura as post doc at Berkeley doing an experiment in the lab.

Carol Mimura's message to innovators: ‘Take risks. There is no shame in failure.’

Research

Black and white image of Martin Luther King Jr. with his back to the camera, and standing at a church pulpit speaking to a congregation of churchgoers sitting on church pews.

As America’s rule of law is threatened, Black history holds lessons

UC Berkeley professor Dylan Penningroth's book Before the Movement reveals the many ways Black Americans, long before the Civil Rights Movement, navigated the law by asserting their civil rights of property.