Berkeley News

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

Research

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

From self-folding chairs to self-planting seeds, UC Berkeley’s Morphing Matter Lab is transforming what’s possible in engineering design with their biomimetic materials.

Color photo of Ned and Carol Spieker, smiling at the camera, wearing blue and white and a little gold.

Campus & community

Historic gift secures future of Cal Men’s Aquatics programs

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

Campus news

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

In this black and white photo, UC President Robert Gordon Sproul laughs with Harold Ellis, who opened the UC's first news bureau in 1925. They are both wearing suits and wire-rimmed glasses.

Campus news

UC Berkeley’s central news office marks 100 years of telling the university’s story

Spotlight: Commencement 2025

Two students hug each other wearing their regalia in the bleachers at UC Berkeley's 2025 campuswide commencement on May 17.

At UC Berkeley’s campuswide commencement, grads were grateful for their personal growth — and four Big Game wins in a row

A young woman holds her graduation cap and smiles. She is wearing a white dress and a gold-and-navy sash

Majoring in gender and women’s studies helped this graduate find her voice

Priyanka D’Souza, pictured sitting on one of the wheeled stools installed as part of her MFA exhibition, before various works created for the exhibition mounted on a shelf viewable at seated height.

This Berkeley MFA exhibition probes how museums and institutions exclude disabled bodies

Research

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

Politics & society

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

At a time when anxiety and threats feel omnipresent, our instinct to react quickly to danger — while powerful — can become unreliable. UC Berkeley political scientist Marika Landau-Wells says there are ways to help us avoid overreacting to false alarms without missing real threats.

a line of Indian women in colorful saris, with their children

Mind & body

Scientists complete the most thorough analysis yet of India’s genetic diversity

Jack Tseng stands on the second floor of the Valley Life Sciences Building looking down on a replica of a T. rex

Research

A T. rex with feathers? Scientists say dinosaurs were likely different from what most of us picture

a female caregiver, apparently of middle age, feeds an elderly woman with a spoon

Politics & society

Proposed Medicaid cuts could have a ‘far-reaching, disproportionate’ impact on older workers

A white, headless robot body against a green background.

Research

Berkeley engineers develop customizable, 3D-printed robot for tech newbies

Arts & culture

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

A painting by Chiura Obata called Sunset, Watertower, March 10, 1943, was done in ink, color and mica on paper while he was in an internment camp. It shows a vibrant sunset behind a watertower in a desolate landscape. There are telephone lines in front of the tower and mountains in the far distance.

Legacy of Chiura Obata, artist and former UC Berkeley professor, endures on campus

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Podcasts

rows of packaged junk food in a grocery store

Berkeley Talks: How the tobacco industry drove the rise of ultra-processed foods

illustration of a person leaning against a tree writing in a journal

Science of Happiness: How to feel hope in a time of uncertainty

People

Noah Whiteman

‘The freedom to be fully human’: A Berkeley biology professor’s take on Pride and thriving in academia

Dean Jenny Chatman pictured at the entrance to Berkeley Haas.

Professor Jennifer Chatman named dean of Berkeley Haas

Campus & community

Student walk in front of Doe Library, with the campanile visible in the background.

UC Berkeley ranked nation’s top public university by U.S. News

a brightly colored rendering of a paved walkway. Many people seem to be enjoying it, including a couple with a bike. There are trees of various opacities, and one has red dots that appear to be fruit. In the background, multicolored apartments can be seen as well as a basketball court and squat community building.

UC Berkeley teams nab top prizes at national affordable housing competition

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