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Arts & culture

African laborers were forgotten in stories of World War I. In this performance, they take center stage.

UC Berkeley French Professor Debarati Sanyal discusses William Kentridge’s “The Head & the Load,” which brings the history of the African porters who carried supplies for European forces to Cal Performances Nov. 12-15.

Campus & community

In community-partnered research, UC Berkeley was a trailblazer. Today it’s a powerhouse.

Mind & body

In parallel mouse studies, researchers fail to replicate many reported effects of psilocybin

Arts & culture

At UC Berkeley, they took part in the Free Speech Movement. Now they want to keep its memory alive.

Spotlight: 2026 Nobel Prizes

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

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

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

Research

Campus news

Watch: Built at Berkeley, bound for space –– to measure exploded stars – Video

Berkeley’s newest space telescope, COSI, is one of many instruments built at the Space Sciences Laboratory.

Research

How Berkeley researchers decoded the loopy physics of hula hooping

Humanities

Watch: Did ancient humans really throw spears at mammoths? A Berkeley archaeologist says no. – Video

Research

How kites can harness the power of the tides

Education

California’s investment in early education brought dramatic improvement in learning, study finds

Arts & culture

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

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

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Podcasts

Berkeley Talks: Michael Pollan and Christof Koch talk psychedelics and consciousness – Audio

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

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People

What makes us human? This professor looks to ancient rabbis for answers

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

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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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