Research

Thelton Henderson, wearing black judicial robes, looking to his left and smiling as he stands before a microphone

Law

A $6 million gift establishes Thelton E. Henderson chair in civil rights law at UC Berkeley

The gift from Bob and Colleen Haas honors the distinguished Berkeley Law alumnus, his pioneering legal legacy and his passion for creating a fairer and more just society.

A digitized side angle of a human head, surrounded by data center walls, indicating the connection between computers and human sentience.

Research

As chatbots get smarter, humans’ unique language abilities are becoming less special

Events at Berkeley

Berkeley Talks: Ezra Klein on building the things we need for the future we want (revisiting)

an eerie illustration, in stark red and black, of the US Capitol inverted and mirrored

Politics & society

Two-thirds of Californians believe US democracy is ‘under attack,’ says new Berkeley IGS Poll

Sarah Gold McBride and Christine Palmer face one another at a desk, smiling at each other, conveying their close friendship

This class traces the evolution of American friendship

A furry brown bat hangs upside down from a piece of fruit.

UC Berkeley scientists uncover neural mechanisms behind long-term memory

A group of students sits in a large yellow disposal bin that is filled with small twigs and branches. The bin is on a hilly street next to a white house.

Wildfire season is here. UC Berkeley scholars are helping Bay Area communities prepare.

an embryonic zebrafish colored blue, green and magenta

Repairing the heart: If zebrafish can do it, why not humans?

An illustration shows a ring of small purple particles, representing disease proteins, sitting on a surface. The ring is partially covered by a droplet of liquid containing enlarged cartoons of plasmonic particles.

From COVID to cancer, new at-home test spots disease with startling accuracy

B&W photo of smiling woman standing at chalkboard

Pioneering theoretical physicist Mary K. Gaillard has died at 86

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 horizontal poster of two blue-black hands cupped and holding the words,

‘We hold these truths’: UC Berkeley law dean leads bi-partisan pro-democracy project

Professor Lining Yao with models created in the Morphing Matter Lab.

Inspired by nature, this engineering professor’s designs fold, move and morph

line drawing of a woman with eerie-looking ghosts coming out the back of her partially missing head

When warnings never cease, can we still trust our instincts?

an illustration showing a crowd of people inside a head, with a cord and plug extending from the brain. The cord is unplugged from a US flag superimposed on a map of the nation.

‘We the people’ is a timeless ideal of American democracy. What’s gone wrong?

A group of seven UC Berkeley scholars stand in front of an art piece during their travel seminar to Senegal

Creative Berkeley scholars traverse the globe to experience international art

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