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Campus & community

Berkeley Talks: What is understanding? Berkeley scholars discuss

Professors in psychology, biology and ethnic studies broach the deep question as part of a series for the Letters and Science course, Research, Discovery and You.

A crowd of supporters holding signs and wearing Trump-branded shirts cheer as Donald Trump, blurred in the foreground, walks onto a stage.

Politics & society

Sociologist examines Appalachian voters’ rightward shift, with Trump as their ‘shame shield’

A person during an event for business startups at UC Berkeley demonstrates a dental implant that her company produces.

Campus & community

UC Berkeley ranked No. 1 for generating startup founders, companies and female entrepreneurs

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Campus & community

UC Berkeley launches new center focused on environmental stewardship

Spotlight: Back to School

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Chancellor Lyons welcomes UC Berkeley to a new academic year

Chancellor Lyons, wearing a Berkeley Changemaker sweatshirt, talks with a campus RA, a resident assistant, during one of the fall move-in days. She is wearing a gold

New chancellor, new housing and robot ramen help kick off Berkeley’s 2024 fall semester

Vihaan smiles while sitting in a courtyard at Berkeley

At 16, he was a cricket star. Then an accident made him rethink his future.

Research

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Research

Agriculture accelerated human genome evolution to capture energy from starchy foods

UC Berkeley study finds rapid increase over last 12,000 years in genes for enzymes that digest starch.

Landscape architect Walter Hood sits, smiling, as he speaks to the camera next to a still photo of a bridge.

Research

Landscape architecture is more people than plants, says UC Berkeley professor

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Research

New process vaporizes plastic bags and bottles, yielding gases to make new, recycled plastics

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Research

Can fungi turn food waste into the next culinary sensation?

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Research

Creature the size of a dust grain found hiding in California’s Mono Lake

Arts & culture

A black and white illustration depicts an artist’s imagining of an aquifer, showing a large underground mass sprouting a collection of small arms that reach for the roots of plants growing above.

Can an aquifer be injured? Scholar brings a disability lens to ecological repair

Camilo and five other AileyCampers practice a dance on stage in 2009

Dance prepared him for the NFL. It began with a Berkeley summer camp.

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Podcasts

Michael Pollan and Mina Kim sit on stage in conversation

Berkeley Talks: It’s not just psychedelics that change minds, says Michael Pollan. Storytelling does, too.

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Berkeley Talks: The science behind the emotions in ‘Inside Out 2’

People

Rich Lyons: What free speech, community mean to UC Berkeley

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Rich Lyons on the future of innovation and entrepreneurship at Berkeley

Campus & community

A photo of a bench, walkway and tropical plants inside Tropical House

A redesigned Tropical House at the UC Botanical Garden opens to the public September 7

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Berkeley Law launches democracy center named for influential former dean

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