Posts by Jason Pohl

A crowd of supporters holding signs and wearing Trump-branded shirts cheer as Donald Trump, blurred in the foreground, walks onto a stage.

Politics & society

Sociologist examines Appalachian voters’ rightward shift, with Trump as their ‘shame shield’

UC Berkeley sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild traveled to eastern Kentucky to study how pride and shame affect people's politics. Then came 'a perfect storm.'

A person during an event for business startups at UC Berkeley demonstrates a dental implant that her company produces.

Campus & community

UC Berkeley ranked No. 1 for generating startup founders, companies and female entrepreneurs

An artist rendering of several large mammoths walking through a field

Research

To kill mammoths in the Ice Age, people used planted pikes, not throwing spears, researchers say

Kamala Harris speaking at a campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia, with a crowd of people cheering behind her.

Mind & body

A UC Berkeley linguist explores what Kamala Harris’ voice and speech reveal about her identity

President-elect Donald Trump in December, 2015, at a rally in Pennsylvania

After Trump’s election, women of color had more underweight, premature babies, study finds

dozens of tv screens showing various sporting events from the control room of the Beijing Olympics

What is lost — and gained — when Olympics coverage becomes a round-the-clock spectacle?

A front-facing view of the U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court has ‘greenlighted the criminalization of homelessness,’ Berkeley experts say

Llamas anaranjadas de un incendio forestal en California ardiendo por la noche en la distancia, con la silueta de una bomba de petróleo y gas en primer plano.

Según un nuevo estudio, los incendios forestales amenazan cada vez más los pozos petroleros, lo que empeora los riesgos potenciales para la salud

orange flames from a wildfire in California burning at night in the distance, with the silhouette of an oil and gas pumpjack in the foreground.

Wildfires increasingly threaten oil and gas drill sites, compounding potential health risks, study says

a compilation of four illustrations, including of a child, a wheelchair, and a brain, all centered around the word eugenics, meant to signify the numerous ways science and society are still shaped by the legacy of eugenics.

The legacy of eugenics

William Carter wears headphones and listens as a computer program reads text from transcribed slave ship logs, the original of which is displayed on a computer screen.

With newly digitized slave ship logs, Berkeley Ph.D. student examines race, power — and literacy

Claudia Sheinbaum pumping her fist and smiling while delivering a presidential victory speech behind a podium.

Claudia Sheinbaum just became Mexico’s first female president. It’s not surprising, Berkeley historian says.

Donald Trump looks toward a camera after a jury found him guilty.

Trump’s conviction ‘a triumph for the rule of law,’ but election impact is unclear, Berkeley scholars say

Inside the two-year project to unify the UC Berkeley and Cal brands

UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ stands at a microphone, outdoors, looking to the left and smiling.

Chancellor Christ talks encampment, legacy and retirement in her final Campus Conversations event

An abstract compilation of hundreds of numbers, sorted and ranked in a way that illustrates the way everything in life is increasingly counted and scored.

From Uber ratings to credit scores: What’s lost in a society that counts and sorts everything?

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