Posts by Jason Pohl

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 UC Berkeley archaeologist is working to build a reference system that can expedite the recovery of service members killed in World War II.

A stack of six tan-colored notebooks labeled

Profiles

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.

Campus & community

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.

Campus & community

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

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?