Berkeley News

Tyler Lee-Wynant stands among shelves lined with boxes of archival materials in the California Language Archive

Humanities

For 50 years, she recorded her Pomo language. Her voice is helping this student reclaim his culture.

In this Berkeley Voices episode, Tyler Lee-Wynant discusses how linguistic materials in the California Language Archive featuring his great-great aunt have opened a portal to his family’s history and led him to teach their language to new generations.

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Profiles

23 boxes and a suitcase full of tapes: How a linguist’s lifelong work is shaping Indigenous language today

Jun Sunseri standing in his lab, pointing at a laptop screen that is displaying the schematic of a B-17 bomber

Research

How crowdsourcing and phone cameras could help bring fallen soldiers home

A photo of an emergency room sign

Research

How a major Bay Area earthquake could endanger healthcare access

Spotlight: Community-Engaged Research

A group of seven people stands and smiles in front of a large yellow disposal bin that is filled with small twigs and branches. The bin is on a hilly street next to a white house.

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

A group photo of dozens of students standing on a beach at sunset in a photo taken during a recent tour across California to visit college campuses, organized by the UC Berkeley ETS team.

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

Lisa Garcia Bedolla clip

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

Research

Research

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to Mars — twin UC Berkeley satellites dubbed Blue and Gold — will launch in early November

NASA’s first multiple-satellite mission to another planet will map Mars’ magnetic field and atmosphere in 3D, laying the groundwork for human exploration.

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Research

Finch chirps are more than mindless chatter. They actually convey meaning.

A glowing clear sheet of plastic with tubes coming out of either side is suspended above a microscope aperture.

Research

Heart-on-a-chip may lead to new treatments for heart failure

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Politics & society

New data shows Asian American and Pacific Islander voters support socialist policies more than the term ‘socialism’ itself

A man on a gray background with an inset image of a scientific rendering of a molecule

Campus news

Atomic clocks: counting the seconds that could change physics

Arts & culture

Carla Shapreau holds up and discusses an antique violin from the Salz Collection to a group of middle school students on a field trip

The secret lives of violins — and the Berkeley scholar who uncovers them

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In new African lit exhibit, stories challenge and enchant

More Arts & culture

Podcasts

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Berkeley Talks: Top Biden official calls for unity, ‘moral courage’ in public service

Catherine Lhamon does an interview in a podcast studio

Voices Carry: Renowned public service lawyer on protecting democracy

People

Side by side portrait of John Cho with a photo of Cho in 1995 on the left and a photo of Cho in 2025 on the right

Then / Now / Next: Actor John Cho on finding independence and identity at UC Berkeley

Elisabeth “Betty” Sadoulet lectures a class.

In memoriam of Agricultural & Resources Economics Professor Elisabeth Sadoulet

Campus & community

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Reporting started at UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program leads to two new police reform laws

Robert Yazzie, holding a microphone in one hand and gesturing with the other, in a somber mix of light and shadow

Navajo Nation Supreme Court, visiting UC Berkeley, offers insight on tribal law

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