Posts by Anne Brice

Ann Johnson sits in her wheelchair with a cord plugged into a neuroprosthesis implant while she participates in a clinical trial helping to restore her ability to speak with a brain-computer interface

Research

Berkeley Voices: A stroke left her ‘locked in.’ With the help of AI, she heard her voice again.

UC Berkeley researchers explain how a brain-computer interface restored Ann Johnson’s ability to speak after 18 years.

the Ratliff family of two parents and three adult children walk in the sun

Arts & culture

Ahead of ‘The White Lotus’ finale, Berkeley professor unpacks show’s Freudian themes and fantasies

an illustration of an eye with a pinwheel of four alternating colors surrounding it, suggesting that the eye is seeing those colors

Arts & culture

Do vowels have colors? According to some with synesthesia, yes.

A wall in an art exhibition of replicas of many famous artworks, like van Gogh's Sunflowers and da Vinci's Mona Lisa

Arts & culture

Berkeley Voices: Fakes, replicas and forgeries: What counts as art?

Headshots of Helen Bateup, Dan Garcia, Kranthi Mandadapu, Mark Sandberg and Sarah Stanley

‘Tremendously effective teachers’: Five UC Berkeley instructors receive Distinguished Teaching Award

Fiona McFarlane juxtaposed next to the cover of her book Highway 13

In 12 short stories, ‘Highway Thirteen’ traces the ripple effects of one man’s violence

A performance on stage of the chamber opera The Great Yes, The Great No. There is a projected image of a woman on a backdrop with three performers with spotlights on them in three corners of the stage.

William Kentridge’s ‘The Great Yes, The Great No’ is a voyage of chaos and creativity

Sarah Gold McBride and Christine Palmer face one another at a desk, smiling at each other, conveying their close friendship

Berkeley Voices: From Victorian-era letters to Swiftie bracelets, an evolution of American friendship

Two actors, who play Jinzo and Catherine in the opera Both Eyes Open, kneel together, holding hands

For 50 years, he’s written about the Japanese American internment. Now, he’s turning to opera.

line drawing of a woman with eerie-looking ghosts coming out the back of her partially missing head

Berkeley Voices: We learn what to fear. Can we unlearn it?

A helicopter in the center frame drops water on a fire as yellowish smoke clouds the sky.

Health, housing and the path ahead: UC Berkeley researchers on the Los Angeles fires

Jack Tseng stands on the second floor of the Valley Life Sciences Building looking down on a replica of a T. rex

Berkeley Voices: Think you know what dinosaurs were like? Think again.

about a dozen dancers in the nutcracker suite perform on stage. six are wearing rat masks and dancing around a group of dancers who look frightened.

The Sugar Rum Fairy? A freewheeling, jazzy reimagination of ‘The Nutcracker’

a stack of about a dozen books by UC Berkeley authors

Holiday gift guide 2024: New books by UC Berkeley authors

Poulomi Saha stands in front of a huge fireplace surrounded with decorative wrought iron.

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

A screenshot of a scene in Inkwo for When the Starving Return that shows a girl looking out on a field of beautiful purple flowers with an ominous-looking forest ahead.

Stop-motion animator creates immersive worlds for Indigenous stories