Monthly Archives: August 2021

A man carries a small child along the beach of Lake Tahoe. They are both wearing face masks, and the air is cloudy with wildfire smoke.

Mind & body

How much wildfire smoke is infiltrating our homes?

Scientists used data from a crowdsourced network of sensors to find out how well Californians are able to keep the air inside their homes safe on smoky days

Research

VIDEO: How to make plastic truly biodegradable

Research

Putting batteries on a chip could enable wearable sensors

A couple holding hands and wearing masks walks across Sproul Plaza on a day when the skies were orange from Northern California wildfires.

Business & economics

Seasons of change: How challenge and crisis will shape the pandemic generation

Chancellor Christ stands at the podium on the Greek Theatre stage wearing regalia.

Chancellor Christ at ‘Commencement, Take Two:’ Grads kept their ‘eyes on the prize’

Two 2020 graduates in regalia embrace in the middle of the crowd at the Greek Theatre at the Class of 2020 In-Person Commencement on Sunday, Aug. 29 at the Greek Theatre

Promise kept: UC Berkeley’s Class of 2020 gets belated commencement

UC Berkeley scientist holds a measuring tape against a massive tree trunk, with Yosemite National Park's Half Dome peak in the background.

UC Berkeley scientist Patrick Gonzalez to advise White House on climate change and biodiversity

Taking changemaking beyond the classroom

Students in masks sit in a lecture hall at Berkeley Law during the first week of fall 2021 classes

A glimpse of fall 2021 at UC Berkeley: Masked, eager, back on campus

Berkeley Talks: Emiliana Simon-Thomas on where happiness comes from

Berkeley Talks transcript: Emiliana Simon-Thomas on where happiness comes from

sculpture and paintings on the wall in an art gallery

BAMPFA’s ‘New Time’ explores the nature of feminist art today

Back to school, back together

graphic of three people walking toward a building

UC Berkeley Library offers (free!) digital course materials

‘Undocumented Americans’ author: ‘Create the art you see in yourself’

four members of team Ssweet in their lab

NASA sweetens the pot: Team wins competition to make space sugar

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