Berkeley News

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Research

Is the ‘love hormone,’ oxytocin, also the ‘friendship hormone’?

A UC Berkeley study found that social prairie voles lacking the receptor for oxytocin are slow to form friendships and less aggressive toward unfamiliar peers. This suggests a role for oxytocin in both the “approach” and “avoid” sides of maintaining friendships.

Disability leaders convene for the National Disability Cultural Centers Symposium and Justice Tour.

Campus & community

UC Berkeley hosts national symposium on how to serve students with disabilities

the uc berkeley symphony orchestra performs in Europe while david milnes conducts. it has some motion blur that gives the image a dream-like quality.

Arts & culture

Encores and sold-out performances: The UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra tours Europe

UC Berkeley Journalism student Erika Zaro interviews Berkeley education professor Travis Bristol in a studio as journalism professor Shereen Marisol Meraji watches wearing headphones

Politics & society

Berkeley Talks: Berkeley scholars unpack what’s at stake for U.S. democracy

Spotlight: Community-Engaged Research

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Watch a professor explain community-engaged research in 101 seconds

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.

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

Research

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Humanities

Berserkers to bigfoot: Computational folklore explained in 101 seconds

By using computational methods to study folklore, UC Berkeley professor Tim Tangherlini is untangling the spread of conspiracies online, tracking pop music’s meaning in Korea and more.

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Politics & society

New database makes public 1.5 million pages of once-secret California police records

A camera trap photo shows a gray wolf walking along a path in the woods, carrying a small black pup in its mouth.

Research

Pups in tow, Yellowstone-area wolves trek long distances to stay near prey

A Togolese farmer wearing a cap sits among tall corn plants, studying a smart phone, while a young man and a woman work among the plants.

Politics & society

Togo and UC Berkeley: A data science alliance to build a dynamic West African nation

An illustration of two robotic snakes investigating an underwater beam.

Research

UC Berkeley engineers develop energy-efficient sensors that work underwater

Arts & culture

UC Berkeley linguist Gašper Beguš peers through a row of books in a library

Berkeley linguist on time travel, talking to whales and the ‘sacred’ role of libraries

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Three standout stories uncovered by the California Local News Fellowship

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Podcasts

Briones Regional Park

Berkeley Remix: The hidden heroes of the East Bay Regional Park District

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Berkeley Talks: Economist Gabriel Zucman on the benefits of a (modest) billionaire tax

People

Frank Baxter stands at a UC Berkeley podium.

UC Berkeley mourns the passing of Frank Baxter

Julie A. Lucas

Julie A. Lucas appointed next vice chancellor for University Development and Alumni Relations

Campus & community

UC President James B. Milliken stands with arms crossed in a still photo.

Introducing UC President James B. Milliken

Rendering of a package of Oski's California Gold beer

UC Berkeley announces craft beer partnership with Bear Republic Brewing

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