Politics & society

CPUC taps Vial Center to study state’s green jobs needs

December 8, 2009

Untraditional students of the world: UC Berkeley, with 20 Gilman Scholars, is one of the nation’s top recipients of study-abroad award for the cash-strapped and underrepresented

December 3, 2009

Cutting greenhouse pollutants could directly save millions of lives worldwide

November 25, 2009

Leading while black: Scholars assess the ‘de-racialized’ Obama White House, and Michelle’s makeover as ‘Mommy in Chief’

November 23, 2009

Climate change could boost incidence of civil war in Africa, study finds

November 23, 2009

Some of us may be born more empathetic, new study suggests

November 16, 2009

Hunger gets a seat at Berkeley’s table: Dinner highlights student-led campaign to drive home the issue of global food inequities

November 13, 2009

How to solve California’s fiscal crisis? First, don’t think of an elephant: Berkeley linguist George Lakoff aims to break legislative gridlock by reframing the budget debate statewide, and restoring majority rule in Sacramento

November 12, 2009

Gates Foundation awards $10.9 million to study impacts of sanitation on diseases

November 5, 2009

Two lawyers with cameras help rehabilitate Mexican ‘justice’

December 1, 2008

“Presumed Guilty”: The story of one man — and a deeply flawed system

December 1, 2008

Dos abogados Mexicanos, con sus cámaras, ayudan a reformar el sistema judicial de su país

December 1, 2008