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Two winners of the 2026 Nobel Prize in economics have deep ties to UC Berkeley

Berkeley’s world-class economics department is celebrating Nobels won by two scholars: Robert E. Hall, a 1964 graduate and early-career faculty member, and Michael Woodford, a visiting scholar in the 2025-26 academic year.

Research

Berkeley helped make IceCube a success — and earn its leader the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics

Arts & culture

New campuswide project confronts the legacy of U.S. nuclear bombing in the Marshall Islands

Research

A global, hardwired pause of frontier AI training is feasible, says new 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

Mind & body

Study explores how AI use affects performance on math and reasoning tasks

A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

Science & environment

Watch: How UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory leads NASA missions like ESCAPADE – Video

Mind & body

As the suicide rate grows among Black youth, here’s where a Berkeley researcher sees reason for hope

Science & environment

A UC Berkeley undergraduate’s research leads to an astronomical first

Politics & society

U.S. builds a ‘systematic’ global deportation network, violating migrant rights, study finds

Arts & culture

Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in Literature, with a chapter at UC Berkeley

Now an elder statesman, former Gov. Gray Davis surveys his career in a major Berkeley project

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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

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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

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Campus & community

What to know about WarnMe and emergency messages

UC Berkeley is the No. 1 public university in North America in Times Higher Education rankings

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