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Tosh Lupoi

People

Tosh Lupoi named as Cal’s 35th head football coach

The former Cal defensive lineman and assistant coach was announced as the new Travers Family Head Football Coach this week.

Professor Juana María Rodríguez and student Mia Aguilar talk and laugh in Juana's office surrounded by a bright red wall and red desk

Humanities

Wikipedia as resistance: This UC Berkeley class makes queer contributions visible

(left) Then: Leyna Quinn-Davidson as a child; (right) Now: Lenya Quinn-Davidson on a private property near Yosemite National Park

People

Then / Now / Next: Ecologist Lenya Quinn-Davidson is rethinking California’s relationship with fire

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Politics & society

When Americans migrate from violent states, the risk of future violence follows them

Spotlight: Community-Engaged Research

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UC Berkeley is doing hundreds of research projects that go beyond the classroom and into communities. Here’s how.

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UC Berkeley college access program serving 1,500 students cut over ‘equity’ reference

Lisa Garcia Bedolla clip

What is community-engaged research? Watch a professor explain in 101 seconds

Research

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Arts & culture

How Greek myths and Hollywood hits can help us understand AI today

In her new book, UC Berkeley researcher Nina Beguš explores how art, history and literature provide a window into AI development, revealing a hopeful — and cautionary — path forward for humanity.

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Research

Strange ‘space plastic’ found on asteroid Bennu

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Mind & body

All life copies DNA unambiguously into proteins. Archaea may be the exception.

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Business & economics

Is work the new religion in Silicon Valley? This UC Berkeley professor thinks so

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Law

Thelton Henderson: Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act, the struggle continues

Arts & culture

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Gifts for every reader: New books by UC Berkeley authors

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Shadow puppets and revenge: Manual Cinema’s new take on ‘Macbeth’

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Podcasts

Randy Schekman sits in a chair in an empty classroom with an illustration of a yeast bud cell drawn in chalk on the blackboard behind him

Berkeley Talks: For Nobel laureate Randy Schekman, it began with pond scum and a toy microscope

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Altered States: An investigation into near-death experiences

People

Side by side portrait of John Cho with a photo of Cho in 1995 on the left and a photo of Cho in 2025 on the right

Then / Now / Next: Actor John Cho on finding independence and identity at UC Berkeley

Elisabeth “Betty” Sadoulet lectures a class.

In memoriam of Agricultural & Resources Economics Professor Elisabeth Sadoulet

Campus & community

Narges Norouzi and Joseph Gonzalez stand in front of a classroom, with a zoom screen in the background showing a lecture slide.

UC Berkeley’s introductory machine learning course gets optimized for the AI age

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Reporting started at UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program leads to two new police reform laws

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