Berkeley News

Arts & culture

This Berkeley artist was given six months to live. Now he’s asking us to rethink our relationship with water.

A double-lung transplant reshaped Professor Greg Niemeyer’s understanding of water as circulation, inspiring his latest art installation, now on view at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery.

Research

The eruption that destroyed Pompeii is helping scientists date Earth’s history

Mind & body

How tiny balls of human brain tissue are revealing the causes of childhood epilepsy — and possible treatments

Awards

UC Berkeley again ranked top public university by U.S. News & World Report

Spotlight: Back to School

From ghost stories to climate entrepreneurship, 9 fascinating new classes at UC Berkeley

As fall semester begins, thousands of new UC Berkeley students gather for a warm campus welcome – Photos

Charting a unique path from the ‘Salad Bowl of America’ to UC Berkeley

Research

Business & economics

Watch: the history of capitalism, explained in 101 seconds – Video

A historian unravels how the economic system that shapes every aspect of our lives came to be — and why none of it was inevitable.

Research

To read 2,000-year-old burned scrolls, scientists burn their own

Campus news

New UC Berkeley study links deep-sleep loss to Alzheimer’s-related protein buildup

Mind & body

New AI model for DNA learns from evolution to unlock secrets of the human genome

Research

Desert soils pull in carbon dioxide at night, Berkeley researchers find

Arts & culture

In a new Robert Reich film, divided Americans struggle with difficult conversations

25 years, 133 cultural icons: A private portrait series makes its public debut

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Podcasts

Berkeley Talks: W. Kamau Bell on AI, creativity and resisting the pull of automation – Audio

Berkeley Talks: Leaping robots, AI companies and a NASA mission: Stories of Berkeley student innovation – Audio

People

At UC Berkeley, they learned to question the status quo. They found purpose in the Peace Corps.

Expanding what’s known about our fast-expanding universe

Campus & community

UC Berkeley is the No. 1 public and No. 9 overall in Forbes rankings of undergraduate colleges

UC Berkeley maintains its spot as the world’s top producer of startups and founders

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