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Sarah Gold McBride and Christine Palmer face one another at a desk, smiling at each other, conveying their close friendship

Arts & culture

This class traces the evolution of American friendship

From heartfelt 19th-century letters to Swiftie bracelets, a UC Berkeley American studies course looks at the ways we’ve found connection with each other throughout history and examines the role of social media in modern friendships.

A furry brown bat hangs upside down from a piece of fruit.

Mind & body

UC Berkeley scientists uncover neural mechanisms behind long-term memory

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.

Campus & community

Wildfire season is here. UC Berkeley scholars are helping Bay Area communities prepare.

an embryonic zebrafish colored blue, green and magenta

Mind & body

Repairing the heart: If zebrafish can do it, why not humans?

An illustration shows a ring of small purple particles, representing disease proteins, sitting on a surface. The ring is partially covered by a droplet of liquid containing enlarged cartoons of plasmonic particles.

From COVID to cancer, new at-home test spots disease with startling accuracy

B&W photo of smiling woman standing at chalkboard

Pioneering theoretical physicist Mary K. Gaillard has died at 86

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

an illustration showing a crowd of people inside a head, with a cord and plug extending from the brain. The cord is unplugged from a US flag superimposed on a map of the nation.

‘We the people’ is a timeless ideal of American democracy. What’s gone wrong?

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

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

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

rows of packaged junk food in a grocery store

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

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

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

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

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