Yearly Archives: 2026

Campus news

W. M. Keck Foundation Bridge Funding Initiative awards grants to seven faculty and their doctoral students

In a bid to offset recent sudden shifts in traditional funding mechanisms, the W. M. Keck Foundation has committed grants totaling $1.4M to seven pairs of faculty mentors and their Ph.D. student mentees at Berkeley.

Politics & society

Homeless people need more than shelter to achieve well-being, study finds

Research

Five takeaways from UC Berkeley’s new survey on psychedelics in society

People

In search of independence far from home, this graduate found it at Berkeley

Two UC Berkeley scholars elected to the American Philosophical Society

New Gateway building creates dedicated campus hub for AI, computing

Being on stage terrified her. So she majored in theater.

‘A system that called itself justice’ took his future. UC Berkeley helped him take it back. - Video

2026 University Medal finalists: Eyes on the stars, feet on the ground

Scientists split gentoo penguins into four species, one totally new to science. Three of them are already threatened.

UC Berkeley Summer Reading List: Books that bring us together

Six UC Berkeley Journalism alumni among 2026 Pulitzer Prize winners

CalFresh benefits help students succeed in college, new UC study finds

Katherine Yelick named director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

As students graduate into a turbulent world, commencement speaker Robert Reich embraces hope

UC Berkeley researchers discover new pathway to building energy-efficient computing chips

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