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Four researchers walk across a grassy plateau with a view of moutains in the background.

Campus & community

UC Berkeley launches new center focused on environmental stewardship

The Stone Center for Environmental Stewardship will advance large-scale nature conservation and restoration in the United States through community-engaged research, training, outreach and policy.

Landscape architect Walter Hood sits, smiling, as he speaks to the camera next to a still photo of a bridge.

Research

Landscape architecture is more people than plants, says UC Berkeley professor

A hand holding three illustrations of faces, one with a straight face, one with a frown and one with a smile, meant to illustrate the connection between feeling stressed about being happy and how that can make a person feel sad

Mind & body

Stop worrying about being happy. It’s making you more depressed.

Chancellor Rich Lyons gestures towards the camera as he speaks towards the viewer.

Campus & community

Chancellor Lyons welcomes UC Berkeley to a new academic year

With a new chancellor, updates to the UC Berkeley brand

Rich Lyons: What free speech, community mean to UC Berkeley

A close up of the star on Sather Gate in autumnal light

Embracing our Principles of Community, honoring our legacy of free speech

Students sit on the edge of Ludwig's Fountain on Sproul Plaza on a sunny day.

Updates on UC-wide campus climate efforts

drake, in a suit, gestures whiile talking to chancellor carol christ outside of california hall

A letter from Michael Drake, UC system president

Celebrating UC Berkeley’s record-breaking fundraising year

A landscape with alternating grassy and forested patches.

Reforestation is more cost-effective than previously thought, study finds

an illustration showing firearm bullets, a city, and a community garden, as if to indicate the ways that gun violence is connected to the built environment and public policy

UC Berkeley course explores gun violence as a public health issue

UC Berkeley psychology professor Alison Gopnik looks into the camera, next to a still picture of a robot hand reaching out towards a baby's hand.

Why studying children’s minds could help us build better AI

Collage of three photos. Left: Paul Raftery; middle: Therese Peffer; right: Hui Zhang.

UC researchers awarded $8 million to advance commercial building decarbonization

Altered States: Will doctors soon prescribe ecstasy?

a colorful gradient background with four headshots of Dacher Keltner, Lisa Damour, Allison Briscoe-Smith and Maurissa Horwitz

Berkeley Talks: The science behind the emotions in ‘Inside Out 2’

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