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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

July 9, 2025

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

June 27, 2025

UC Berkeley architect Ronald Rael pictured next to an image that displays an example of earthen architecture.

Mud and robots: Why earthen architecture is the future

June 20, 2025

Poulomi Saha stands in front of a huge fireplace surrounded with decorative wrought iron.

Who decides the difference between a cult and a religion? The IRS

June 16, 2025

Two images side by side: on the left, two knights fight each other on horseback; on the right, the knight ask a woman for forgiveness after he killed her husband

Why did medieval readers kiss, smudge and deface their books?

May 13, 2025

Emily Thompson, clad in a cap and gown, holds her 2-year-old, Caspian, also wearing a small gown, while her other kid, River, stands next to her. She's smiling widely.

After wilderness therapy, this graduate found her own path at UC Berkeley

May 6, 2025

Two Berkeley professors receive prestigious Guggenheim fellowships

April 22, 2025

two images side by side: on the left, the cover of the book Open Socrates and on the right, Judith Butler and Agnes Callard in a conversation

Berkeley Talks: The case for a philosophical life, with Agnes Callard and Judith Butler

April 18, 2025

a multistory museum with a brown lattice exterior pictured at night, with a white obelisk rising in the background.

Executive actions aim to reshape America’s cultural institutions. UC Berkeley scholars react

April 16, 2025

A woman on a gray background with an inset image of an armored cable going into the ocean.

Watch a professor explain the internet’s series of subsea tubes in 101 seconds

April 10, 2025

the Ratliff family of two parents and three adult children walk in the sun

Ahead of ‘The White Lotus’ finale, Berkeley professor unpacks show’s Freudian themes and fantasies

April 3, 2025

Ethnic Studies marks its PhD program’s 40th anniversary

April 3, 2025

an illustration of an eye with a pinwheel of four alternating colors surrounding it, suggesting that the eye is seeing those colors

Do vowels have colors? According to some with synesthesia, yes.

April 2, 2025

A wall in an art exhibition of replicas of many famous artworks, like van Gogh's Sunflowers and da Vinci's Mona Lisa

Berkeley Voices: Fakes, replicas and forgeries: What counts as art?

March 31, 2025

image of a white building with a porch under a large tree

How is slavery represented at American tourist sites today?

March 25, 2025

Various members of the Khmer community sit at rows of tables at a room. Many of them appear to be engaged in conversation. One wears a flower in her hair, while another is smiling serenely while wearing a fur hat.

The complex story of how the pandemic impacted the Asian American diaspora

March 21, 2025