Posts by Jason Pohl

A person speaking to a room of people, photographed facing the room with somewhat blurred faces in the audience smiling or clapping.

Research

Not everyone reads the room the same. A new UC Berkeley study examines why.

Some brains perform a complicated assessment, said Jefferson Ortega, a psychology Ph.D. student. New research shows others seem to take a shortcut.

A rendering of the supportive and affordable housing building and open space planned for People's Park

Campus news

UC Berkeley announces partner for supportive and affordable housing at People’s Park

A doctor meets with a patient in a medical office, and the two appear to be having a conversation.

Mind & body

Beyond biology: Why social context is the key for improving modern medicine

An AI illustration of a person's face is shown on a laptop screen, with stacks of books shown in the background, illustrating the connection between AI technology and the humanities

Arts & culture

How Greek myths and Hollywood hits can help us understand AI today

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

How crowdsourcing and phone cameras could help bring fallen soldiers home

A stack of six tan-colored notebooks labeled

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

dacher keltner portrait over a blue background

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