Wikipedia as resistance: This UC Berkeley class makes queer contributions visible
At a time when information about LGBTQ people and their histories are being erased from public view, students are documenting them in the world’s largest encyclopedia.
Podcast: Berkeley Voices
Berkeley Voices is an award-winning podcast that explores the work and lives of fascinating UC Berkeley faculty, students, staff, and visiting scholars and artists. It aims to educate listeners about Berkeley’s advances in teaching and research, spark curiosity about the deeper layers of American history and to build community across our diverse campus.
It's produced and hosted by Anne Brice in the Office of Communications and Public Affairs. Follow Berkeley Voices.
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Season 2: Two sides of a story
There's always more than one side to a story. In season two of Berkeley Voices, we hear from UC Berkeley scholars working on life-changing research and the people whose lives are changed by it.
For 50 years, she recorded her Pomo language. Her voice is helping this student reclaim his culture.
In this Berkeley Voices episode, Tyler Lee-Wynant discusses how linguistic materials in the California Language Archive featuring his great-great aunt have opened a portal to his family’s history and led him to teach their language to new generations.
Berkeley Voices season 2: Two sides of a story
This season we'll hear from UC Berkeley scholars working on life-changing research, and from the people who’ve been changed by it.
Past Seasons
Season 1: Transformation
In season one, we look at how transformation — of ideas, of research, of perspective — shows up in the work that happens every day at UC Berkeley.
How seeing a new color stretches the limits of human perception
Last month, UC Berkeley researchers tricked the eye into seeing a new color they named "olo." They say it could transform how we understand and treat eye diseases, and expand the way we see the world around us.
A stroke left her ‘locked in.’ With the help of AI, she heard her voice again.
UC Berkeley researchers explain how a brain-computer interface restored Ann Johnson’s ability to speak after 18 years.
Fakes, replicas and forgeries: What counts as art?
In the early 2000s, UC Berkeley rhetoric professor Winnie Wong visited Dafen village in China, where artists painted replicas of famous pieces like the Mona Lisa and Starry Night. It dramatically changed how she thinks about art and those who make it.
From Victorian-era letters to Swiftie bracelets, an evolution of American friendship
An American studies class at UC Berkeley explores how the depiction of friendship in popular culture and media has shifted throughout history, and what it looks like today.
We learn what to fear. Can we unlearn it?
We’re bombarded with messaging trying to hijack our quick fear responses, says UC Berkeley political scientist Marika Landau-Wells. Brain research could tell us more about how to change our perception of what’s dangerous and what's not.
Think you know what dinosaurs were like? Think again.
Was the T. rex brightly colored with feathers? Did it run as fast as movies make it seem? How new discoveries challenge our long-held beliefs about the world of paleontology.
As crises escalate, so does our fascination with cults
UC Berkeley Professor Poulomi Saha, who teaches a class on cults in popular culture, says students today see limited economic possibilities, the scourge of war and the looming threat of climate change and think, "It doesn't have to be this way."
Psychopathy goes undetected in some people. Why?
By using a combination of methods tailored to the multidimensional nature of psychopathy, we could transform how we identify and understand this personality disorder, said Berkeley psychology professor and lead author Keanan Joyner.