Skip to content

News

  • All news
  • UC Berkeley
  • Research

    • Subcategories in Research

      • Technology & engineering
      • Business & economics
      • Humanities
      • Mind & body
      • Politics & society
      • Science & environment
      • All Research

    • Top Stories in Research

      frog sits on a rock, its body half submerged in water

      Science & environment

      Berkeley Talks: Finding hope for biodiversity conservation

    • Top Stories in Research

      Students in masks work at tables in Doe Libary's North Reading room on the first day of classes, fall 2021.

      Business & economics

      Simplifying financial aid letters pays big dividends, says Berkeley study

    • Top Stories in Research

      A photo of a bat in profile

      Mind & body

      Bat study reveals secrets of the social brain

  • People

    • Subcategories in People

      • Profiles
      • Awards
      • Milestones
      • All People

    • Top Stories in People

      A photo of Daniel Kammen at a desk in front of a large bookshelf.

      Milestones

      UC Berkeley professor to advise USAID on sustainable energy development

    • Top Stories in People

      three students sit together talking

      Profiles

      Circle Up: A support group for students, by students

    • Top Stories in People

      card poses for a selfie with a group of young people

      Awards

      Colleagues offer a heartfelt celebration for Nobel laureate David Card

  • Campus & community

    • Subcategories in Campus & community

      • Campus news
      • Work life
      • Events at Berkeley
      • All Campus & community

    • Top Stories in Campus & community

      frog sits on a rock, its body half submerged in water

      Events at Berkeley

      Berkeley Talks: Finding hope for biodiversity conservation

    • Top Stories in Campus & community

      A photo of a woman looking at a computer screen that is filled with words.

      Campus news

      Berkeley, UCSF launch joint program in computational precision health

    • Top Stories in Campus & community

      three students sit together talking

      Campus news

      Circle Up: A support group for students, by students

  • Arts & culture
      • Performing arts
      • Literature
      • Film
      • Visual arts
      • Events calendar
      • All arts & culture

      • hands hold a page of a letter written by mark twain in 1861

        Literature

        Early Mark Twain letter ‘peels away the mythmaking’

      • painting of the palm of a hand with the word "feminist" etched in the skin in red

        Visual arts

        Berkeley Talks: Scholars discuss ‘New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century’

      • students perform mexican dance called veracruz

        Performing arts

        Ballet folklórico: Celebrating Mexican culture through dance

  • Opinion
      • Berkeley Blog
      • Voices
      • All opinion

      • Various GBO leaders stand under Sather Gate with signs that spell out the names of their student orientiation groups.

        Rothstein: Why UC Berkeley — not Harvard — is America’s top university

      • A line of police officers in riot gear point weapons containing rubber bullets at protesters in Los Angeles following the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed in police custody on May 25.

        Berkeley Blog

        California must defend protesters from the harms of tear gas, rubber bullets

      • Joy Heitmann, a teacher at the Rockridge Little School in Oakland, sits among pre-school students

        Berkeley Blog

        California’s budget a win for families, early education challenges remain

MENU

Anthropology

portrait of Linda Rugg smiling

Linda Rugg on Native American repatriation at...

July 2, 2021
Zachary O'Hagan in the home of anthropologist Gerald Weiss packing up his Ashaninka collection.

Chance phone call keeps alive scholar’s...

May 24, 2021
Anthropology professor Paul Rabinow in Paris in 2002.

World-renowned anthropologist Paul Rabinow...

April 23, 2021
Jessica Johnson, a doctoral student in Egyptology, uses a Vive Cosmos VR headset to explore a recreation of the 2,500-year-old tomb of Psamtik.

A tomb with a view: Egyptologist recreates...

March 8, 2021
mummified crocodile in a display case

What crocodile mummies tell us about ancient Egypt

March 2, 2021
Morino Baca, a Native American graduate student in public health, works on an archaeology project in Pueblo de Abiquiú, 20 miles from Española in New Mexico where he grew up. At left, UC Berkeley student Jasper Sundeen. (Photo by Danny Sosa Aguilar)

Indigenous archaeology plows forward, despite...

February 4, 2021
Seven La Chamba pots used in experiment on the residue of past meals cooked.

To recreate ancient recipes, check out the vestiges...

September 11, 2020
Painting of Cahokia by William R. Iseminger, courtesy of Cahokia Mounds Historic State Site.

New study debunks myth of Native American...

January 27, 2020
Portrait of Francoise Bourzat next to her book cover

Consciousness guide on using psychedelics as medicine

January 10, 2020
an image of the persepolis ruins

When the U.S. abandons protection of cultural...

January 7, 2020
A photo of a Neanderthal skull against a black background

Deadly human diseases may have killed off the...

November 20, 2019
lake coring

Maya more warlike than previously thought

August 5, 2019
Cueva del Chileno

Ayahuasca fixings found in 1,000-year-old Andean...

May 6, 2019
Chinese snuff bottles, Hearst Museum

A mind-altering exploration spanning time and the...

April 5, 2019
Ashton Applewhite speaking

Ashton Applewhite on counteracting ageism

March 25, 2019
an image of aj white examining an archeological dig

What ancient poop reveals about the rise and fall of...

March 14, 2019

Top Stories

frog sits on a rock, its body half submerged in water

Berkeley Talks: Finding hope for biodiversity...

Students in masks work at tables in Doe Libary's North Reading room on the first day of classes, fall 2021.

Simplifying financial aid letters pays big...

A photo of a bat in profile

Bat study reveals secrets of the social brain

Related Stories

A photo of a woman looking at a computer screen that is filled with words.

Berkeley, UCSF launch joint program in...
Ziqi Wang headshot in a blue shirt

Meet our new faculty: Ziqi Wang, civil engineering

Trending now

  • Campus newsA photo of a woman looking at a computer screen that is filled with words.Innovative joint program in computational precision health at UC Berkeley and UCSF aims to improve quality and equity of health care
  • Campus & communitythe North Reading Room in Doe library is filled with masked studentsUC Berkeley plans all in-person classes for spring 2022
  • Campus & communitySather GateAn update on UC Berkeley's plans for the fall semester

VIDEOS

PODCASTS

An artistic rendering of the Berkeley campus from above, showing an illustration of the proposed Gateway building

The Gateway will be a campus home for data-driven...

100 cardboard cut outs of mark zuckerberg stand in front of the Capitol

Berkeley Talks: Berkeley experts on how to fight...

Browse

  • All news
  • Topics A-Z

Follow Us

  • View UCBerkeley’s profile on Facebook
  • View UCBerkeley’s profile on Twitter
  • View UCBerkeleyOfficial’s profile on Instagram
  • View UCZAXKyvvIV4uU4YvP5dmrmA’s profile on YouTube
  • View UCBerkeley’s profile on Medium

About

  • About us
  • Contact the news team
  • Enroll in our online media training
  • Find an Expert

Subscribe

  • Sign up for email news alerts
  • Subscribe to The Berkeleyan, our weekly email newsletter
University of California Berkeley
Copyright © 2021 UC Regents; all rights reserved
  • Accessibility
  • Nondiscrimination
  • Privacy
  • All news
  • UC Berkeley
  • Research
    • Technology & engineering
    • Business & economics
    • Humanities
    • Mind & body
    • Politics & society
    • Science & environment
    • All research
  • People
    • Profiles
    • Awards
    • Milestones
    • All people
  • Campus & community
    • Campus news
    • Work life
    • Events at Berkeley
    • All campus & community
  • Arts & culture
    • Performing arts
    • Visual arts
    • Film
    • Literature
    • All arts & culture
  • Opinion
    • Berkeley Blog
    • Voices
    • All opinion
Notice - The latest information on how UC Berkeley is responding to coronavirus.
[X] Close