Posts by Jason Pohl

Students looks down toward a phone during a Big Ideas Demo Day and Award Ceremony. A similar contest will have students work to solve challenges in the city of Berkeley.

Campus & community

In new competition, UC Berkeley students will tackle some of the city’s most pressing challenges

Students in the newly launched Berkeley Civic Engagement Challenge will compete for prizes, and their proposals could lead to city-wide improvements.

Men standing on a white truck watch over a vineyard as the Point Fire burns nearby in Healdsburg, on June 16, 2024.

Research

Most of Wine Country’s agricultural workers have been exposed to wildfires, new survey finds

Chancellor Rich Lyons, left, speaks to an audience about startup culture at UC Berkeley while Ana Claudia Arias, center, and Ken Goldberg, right, look on

Campus & community

Chancellor, scholars and alum discuss Berkeley’s culture of innovation

dacher keltner portrait over a blue background

Awards

Dacher Keltner, UC Berkeley psychologist, receives prestigious lifetime achievement award

Two people wearing blue lab coats and masks sqeeze a tube at a lab bench into a vial.

No. 1 again: UC Berkeley generates more startups and founders than any other university

A close-up image of a label for the medicine buprenophrine

Despite relaxed prescribing rules, opioid addiction treatment still hard to find at pharmacies

A copy of the Startup Campus book leans against a stack of six copies, with the Campanile blurred in the background

New book chronicles UC Berkeley’s evolution into a ‘Startup Campus’

A photo of Judy Heumann holding her two books, Being Heumann and Rolling Warrior. Judy is a woman with short brown hair who uses a wheelchair. She is wearing glasses, a bright blue shirt with pink embroidered flowers, and black pants. The book covers are yellow and red.

Student housing at People’s Park to be named after Judith Heumann, disability rights leader

Learning to listen: Expanded UC Berkeley course teaches how to better engage with opposing views

Julie A. Lucas

Julie A. Lucas appointed next vice chancellor for University Development and Alumni Relations

A digitized side angle of a human head, surrounded by data center walls, indicating the connection between computers and human sentience.

As chatbots get smarter, humans’ unique language abilities are becoming less special

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

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

A sign with the Statue of LIberty that says

New research says framing protests as fights for civil rights ‘backfires.’ So what might work?

A person's hand writing a list of items on a piece of paper next to boxes that will be checked off.

In search of a way to improve humans’ faulty memories and bad habits

A group of 14 people who are involved in Coco Auerswald's project involving young people who experienced homelessness in the research process stand in front of a screen that reads

To understand youth experiencing homelessness, this UC Berkeley professor hires them

Ryan and Melissa Mattson in graduation apparel

How two graduating siblings found their ‘second act’ at UC Berkeley