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Berkeley Law launches democracy center named for influential former dean

The new center, named for high-impact civil rights expert Christopher Edley Jr., will explore the challenges confronting democracy and train students to become effective guardians.

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Politics & society

UC Berkeley course explores gun violence as a public health issue

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Student aims to improve AI for underserved languages and communities

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Campus & community

Your ultimate guide to the 100+ UC athletes set to shine at the Paris Olympics

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Four new faculty hires are a quantum leap for experimental physics

Coach Mo walks off the field, away from student-athlete Mykolas Alekna, with a huge grin on his face

Behind Cal’s Olympic throwers, a fiercely dedicated coach

Michael Yartsev stands in a darkened room with his hands on his hips. Yellow and teal lights swirl around him.

UC Berkeley Professor Michael Yartsev named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons sits, looking at the camera

In his first day on the job, a message from Chancellor Rich Lyons

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

Jeff MacKie-Mason, dressed in all black, sits on a couch and smiles for a portrait

Jeff MacKie-Mason has seen the future of libraries

Omar Yaghi sits in front of a cabinet holding models of chemical structures in different colors

Omar Yaghi wins prestigious Tang Prize for Sustainable Development

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

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UC Berkeley neuroscientist and nanoscientist among this year’s Kavli Prize winners

An artist's rendering of what UC Berkeley's campus will look like in the future according to the campus master plan

Unprecedented campus construction marked Carol Christ’s chancellorship

For Chancellor Christ, music is “a place of beauty, of restoration”

Jeff Davis, the retiring university carillonist, sits on the bench of the grand carillon on the observation deck of the Campanile. His body is turned toward the camera and he's wearing eye glasses, a beard, a short-sleeved plaid shirt and a smile.

Retiring University Carillonist Jeff Davis reflects on ‘the coolest job in the world’

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