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Holiday gift guide 2024: New books by UC Berkeley authors

From an exploration on how to make sense in a world of nonsense to an examination of the American sitcom, the subjects of this year’s books are expansive — a reflection of our dynamic and diverse campus.

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Politics & society

Can ecotourism help promote cultural diversity and biodiversity?

A teacher and his students in a classroom in Rwanda

Research

UC Berkeley’s Center for Effective Global Action launches major new partnership with USAID

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Research

Black students are punished more often, ‘no matter how you slice it’

Spotlight: Election 2024

a person stops to watch a screen displaying the US Presidential debate between Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Election 2024: Berkeley scholars explore the complex dynamics of a historic campaign

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How World War I helps explain what gave rise to Trump’s second term

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UC Berkeley scholars say the economy, sexism and conspiracies fueled Trump’s reelection

Research

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Research

Magnetic tornado is stirring up the haze at Jupiter’s poles

Unusual magnetically driven vortices may be generating Earth-size concentrations of hydrocarbon haze

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Research

A clue to what lies beneath the bland surfaces of Uranus and Neptune

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Research

A nearby supernova could end the search for dark matter

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Mind & body

Watch a UC Berkeley neurologist explain how concussions really work

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Politics & society

Helping Nevada’s rural and Indigenous communities navigate the renewable energy boom

Arts & culture

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‘James’ author Percival Everett discusses his ‘Huckleberry Finn’ retelling at a campus event 

BERKELEY, CA - October 26 - Atmosphere at Shah Garg Collection at BAMPFA on October 26th 2024 at BAMFA in Berkeley, CA (Photo - Drew Altizer Photography)

One of the world’s largest collections of work by women artists is now on view at BAMPFA

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Podcasts

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Berkeley Voices: As crises escalate, so does our fascination with cults

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Berkeley Talks: Veteran news editors on how the media covered the election

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People

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With change coming to Washington, does higher education face a ‘dystopian’ future?

Today, Monday, November 18, 2024,The New York Stock Exchange welcomes University of California, Berkeley to the podium. To honor the occasion, Rich Lyons, Chancellor, joined by Bonnie Hyun, Head of US Capital Markets, rings The Closing Bell®. Photo Credit: NYSE

Chancellor Lyons rings closing bell at the NYSE

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Campus & community

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This company’s mission is to make the world accessible to Deaf people. It all started at Berkeley’s Big Ideas Contest

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New plant bug species named after scientists, actors — and Vice President Kamala Harris

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