Berkeley News

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Campus news

A UC Berkeley professor explains the thorny history of love, sex and marriage

Two hundred years before swiping and Instagram-ready weddings, the “deadly serious institution” of American marriage had more to do with property, race and religion than love, according to historian David Henkin.

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Campus & community

Wildfire safety to move-out waste: UC Berkeley students pitch fixes for top city problems

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Campus news

How the Berkeley Seismology Lab turns data into disaster prevention

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Mind & body

Basic research on Listeria bacteria leads to unique cancer therapy

Spotlight: Community-Engaged Research

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UC Berkeley is doing hundreds of research projects that go beyond the classroom and into communities. Here’s how.

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UC Berkeley college access program serving 1,500 students cut over ‘equity’ reference

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What is community-engaged research? Watch a professor explain in 101 seconds

Research

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Awards

Four UC Berkeley faculty elected to National Academy of Engineering

A chemical engineer, a biochemist, a roboticist and a laser dynamicist are among the new members.

Campus news

Watch: an archaeologist’s guide to Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’

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Humanities

The U.S. housing crisis looms large. Could a Thai model help solve it?

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Law

How a Berkeley Law team helped detail the assassination of Honduran activist Berta Cáceres

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Politics & society

What happened when canvassers tried to listen, not persuade

Arts & culture

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How Emily Dickinson’s musical poetry pushes us to live more expansively

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In 18th‑century China, these artists made Europeans’ portraits. Only now are their identities emerging.

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Podcasts

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Berkeley Talks: An evolutionary biologist makes the case for pausing AI

The Science of Love: Exploring the biology of belonging

People

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Despite budget threats, UC Berkeley invests in six new tenure-track Asian American and Pacific Islands specialists

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Deep in the Dolomites, a UC Berkeley professor and his service dog carry the Olympic flame

Campus & community

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New oral history project chronicles the resilience of UC Berkeley’s libraries

UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons speaks at Cal Athletics' Winning Analytics summit.

UC Berkeley brings data science to the field with Cal Athletics’ Winning Analytics summit

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