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Campus & community

Wildfire season is here. UC Berkeley scholars are helping Bay Area communities prepare.

UC Berkeley Professor Michael Gollner and his students are applying advanced wildfire simulation tools to help neighborhoods understand their specific wildfire risks.

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Mind & body

UC Berkeley scientists uncover neural mechanisms behind long-term memory

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Mind & body

Repairing the heart: If zebrafish can do it, why not humans?

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Research

From COVID to cancer, new at-home test spots disease with startling accuracy

Spotlight: Commencement 2025

Two students hug each other wearing their regalia in the bleachers at UC Berkeley's 2025 campuswide commencement on May 17.

At UC Berkeley’s campuswide commencement, grads were grateful for their personal growth — and four Big Game wins in a row

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Majoring in gender and women’s studies helped this graduate find her voice

Priyanka D’Souza, pictured sitting on one of the wheeled stools installed as part of her MFA exhibition, before various works created for the exhibition mounted on a shelf viewable at seated height.

This Berkeley MFA exhibition probes how museums and institutions exclude disabled bodies

Research

Students point toward poster paper on the wall during an exercise about the ways to better understand chronic absenteeism among students.

Education

With high schoolers’ help, UC Berkeley researchers investigate why so many students are chronically absent

The multi-year project partners with San Francisco students to design and interpret studies exploring chronic absenteeism — and explore how young people can be part of the solution.

Professor Lining Yao with models created in the Morphing Matter Lab.

Research

Inspired by nature, this engineering professor’s designs fold, move and morph

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Politics & society

When warnings never cease, can we still trust our instincts?

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Campus news

‘We hold these truths’: UC Berkeley law dean leads bi-partisan pro-democracy project

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Mind & body

Scientists complete the most thorough analysis yet of India’s genetic diversity

Arts & culture

A group of seven UC Berkeley scholars stand in front of an art piece during their travel seminar to Senegal

Creative Berkeley scholars traverse the globe to experience international art

A painting by Chiura Obata called Sunset, Watertower, March 10, 1943, was done in ink, color and mica on paper while he was in an internment camp. It shows a vibrant sunset behind a watertower in a desolate landscape. There are telephone lines in front of the tower and mountains in the far distance.

Legacy of Chiura Obata, artist and former UC Berkeley professor, endures on campus

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Podcasts

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Berkeley Talks: How the tobacco industry drove the rise of ultra-processed foods

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Science of Happiness: How to feel hope in a time of uncertainty

People

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Pioneering theoretical physicist Mary K. Gaillard has died at 86

Noah Whiteman

‘The freedom to be fully human’: A Berkeley biology professor’s take on Pride and thriving in academia

Campus & community

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Historic gift secures future of Cal Men’s Aquatics programs

In this black and white photo, UC President Robert Gordon Sproul laughs with Harold Ellis, who opened the UC's first news bureau in 1925. They are both wearing suits and wire-rimmed glasses.

UC Berkeley’s central news office marks 100 years of telling the university’s story

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