101 in 101

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

Campus & community

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

The UC Berkeley assistant professor prioritizes Indigenous knowledge and narratives, seeking to integrate them with scholarly theories and methods.

UC Berkeley professor Noah Whiteman.

Research

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.

Research

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

Politics & society

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