Berkeley Voices: Transformation

In the 2024-25 season of Berkeley Voices, we explore the theme of transformation. In eight episodes, we look at how transformation — of ideas, of research, of perspective — shows up in the work that happens every day at UC Berkeley.

closeup of a peacock feather that resembles an eye

Technology & engineering

Berkeley Voices: 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.

Technology & engineering

Berkeley Voices: A stroke left her ‘locked in.’ With the help of AI, she heard her voice again.

A wall in an art exhibition of replicas of many famous artworks, like van Gogh's Sunflowers and da Vinci's Mona Lisa

Arts & culture

Berkeley Voices: Fakes, replicas and forgeries: What counts as art?

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

Humanities

Berkeley Voices: From Victorian-era letters to Swiftie bracelets, an evolution of American friendship

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

Berkeley Voices: We learn what to fear. Can we unlearn it?

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

Berkeley Voices: Think you know what dinosaurs were like? Think again.

Poulomi Saha stands in front of a huge fireplace surrounded with decorative wrought iron.

Berkeley Voices: As crises escalate, so does our fascination with cults

a simple continuous line drawing of a face that suggests the many dimensions of a person's personality