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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.

Research

Is the Bay Area prepared for major wildfires?

A UC Berkeley-led team is using computer simulations to stress-test the region’s disaster preparedness and creating virtual games to educate the public about wildfire safety.

A main entrance to xučyun ruwway graduate student housing has the Chochenyo name spelled just above the front door. The metal lettering is painted yellow.

Campus & community

Ceremony celebrates xučyun ruwway, UC Berkeley’s newest housing for graduate students

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Research

The Andromeda galaxy struts its stuff

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.

Politics & society

How Black Americans worked to reform America’s legal system before the Civil Rights Movement

Spotlight: LA wildfires

A helicopter in the center frame drops water on a fire as yellowish smoke clouds the sky.

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

A charred building, surrounded by debris and ash with a view through the structure toward a white-painted home that is intact and undamaged by fire.

What’s next for home insurance in California after the Los Angeles fires?

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UC Berkeley experts in wildfires, environmental health, climate change and more

Research

Politics & society

Trump may be planning a sharp, extended conflict with California, experts say

Donald Trump does not hide his disdain for California and its perceived progressive values. Now UC Berkeley analysts say he may be planning an offensive against the state that extends from public health and climate to immigration, energy and education.

UC Berkeley biogeography professor Stephanie Pau sits beside a still image of a satellite mapping the Earth.

Research

This scientist uses satellites to map the Earth’s plant life — and help combat climate change

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Awards

UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna receives National Medal of Technology and Innovation

People

Jelani Nelson uses computer science tools to replicate human thought

A microscope image of a 3D-printed antenna, which has tree-like crystalline branches emerging from a central trunk.

Research

Engineers 3D print tiny, intricate antennas

Arts & culture

art student gericault de la rose works on an art installation in 2023

UC Berkeley awarded $2.6 million grant to counter arts censorship

Academy Award

Berkeley Journalism faculty and alumni shortlisted for Academy Awards

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Podcasts

john powell, ashley gallegos and stephen menendian sit at the front of a room in front of an audience

Berkeley Talks: A blueprint for creating a world where everyone belongs

Jack Tseng stands on the second floor of the Valley Life Sciences Building looking down on a replica of a T. rex

Berkeley Voices: Think you know what dinosaurs were like? Think again.

People

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Ken Ribet awarded math prize for influential proof

A photo illustration showing students streaming down a campus walkway. The outer frame is in black and white negative; the central frame is in full color.

With change coming to Washington, does higher education face a ‘dystopian’ future?

Campus & community

UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons sits, looking at the camera

A message from Chancellor Lyons: A time for caring and compassion

Students stream out of convocation and through Sather Gate.

New data show an increase in Californians enrolling as undergraduates at UC Berkeley

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