101 in 101

Our 101 in 101 video series challenges UC Berkeley’s professors and experts to explain the basics of their field in only 101 seconds. Watch more below.

Researcher Stephen Menendian is shown in studio with inset image reading structural racism

Campus news

Watch a Berkeley scholar explain structural racism

Structural racism — or the way systems like housing, education, employment and justice create racial disparities without overtly racist actors — is a concept that is often “deeply misunderstood,” according to Stephen Menendian.

a man on a gray background with an inset grainy image of a bigfoot.

Humanities

Berserkers to bigfoot: Computational folklore explained in 101 seconds

Jenny Chatman, dean of Haas Business school.

Business & economics

Watch the dean of the Haas Business School explain organizational culture in 101 seconds

A woman on a gray background speaking with an inset image of a close up of a quilt pattern.

Campus news

This new BAMPFA exhibit explores the art and history of African American quilts

Watch as traffic safety research is explained in 101 seconds

A woman on a gray background with an inset image of an armored cable going into the ocean.

Watch a professor explain the internet’s series of subsea tubes in 101 seconds

A smiling man on a gray background with an inset image of unreadable text

With AI and linguistics, this professor is decoding how animals and humans communicate

smiling woman on a gray background. An inset image of a paintbrush and pallete.

Watch UC Berkeley’s Executive Dean of Letters and Science explain the liberal arts in 101 seconds

Assistant professor Asta Mønsted does fieldwork in Greenland, pausing to take notes while crouched in front of a mound with large rocks in it.

Asta Mønsted, a specialist in prehistoric archaeology, reveals Greenland through the Inuit oral tradition

UC Berkeley professor Noah Whiteman.

Watch a professor explain the evolutionary war that gave us caffeine

UC Berkeley biogeography professor Stephanie Pau sits beside a still image of a satellite mapping the Earth.

This scientist uses satellites to map the Earth’s plant life — and help combat climate change

A still of Raka Ray, the dean of sociology at UC Berkeley, next to a superimposed photo of a man holding a magnifying glass

Sociologists are the detectives of the social world, says UC Berkeley dean of social sciences

UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky talks to the camera next to a still photo of protestors holding a banner that reads

Watch the dean of Berkeley Law explain free speech in 101 seconds

UC Berkeley professor Randy Schekman looks into the camera with a still image of microscopic yeast cells behind him

How looking closely led this cell biologist to world-changing breakthroughs

Landscape architect Walter Hood sits, smiling, as he speaks to the camera next to a still photo of a bridge.

Landscape architecture is more people than plants, says UC Berkeley professor