disasters

A photo of a woman standing against a wall made of corrugated metal, holding up a cell phone. The screen of the phone reads,

Mind & body

Cellphone data, machine learning help target humanitarian aid in Togo

UC Berkeley researchers used a breakthrough phone-based approach to quickly and accurately direct the Togolese government’s COVID-19 cash assistance to its poorest residents

Campus & community

Berkeley Talks: The EU in crisis

A photo shows two people wearing bright safety vests walking along a long, low levee by the coast on a bright clear day.

Research

When extreme events are no longer rare: Lessons from Hurricane Ida

A man carries a small child along the beach of Lake Tahoe. They are both wearing face masks, and the air is cloudy with wildfire smoke.

Mind & body

How much wildfire smoke is infiltrating our homes?

Lyn Hejiniam reads poetry at a podium while poets Indira Allegra and Chiyuma Elliott listen

Berkeley Talks: Poetry and the Senses: ‘Emergency is not separate from us’

A pair of yellow, buckyball-shaped robots sit on a pile of rubble

Squishy robots can drop from a helicopter and land safely

Fire + water: Restoring natural fire to California’s mountains

All classes canceled Monday, Tuesday

Big Game postponed, more classes canceled because of smoky air

EPA map of air quality in the Bay Area as of 4 p.m. Thursday

Worsening air quality forces cancellation of classes

Will Hurricane Michael sprint or linger once it hits land?

Students to build partnerships on ‘alternative break’ in Puerto Rico

Jesyka Melendez, Erika Lopez Alfonzo and Yairamaren Roman

Students in ‘la diaspora’ take Puerto Rico relief efforts into own hands

Jose Ramos Mora, a UC Berkeley senior studying business administration, wipes down the women's bathroom at an evacuation center in Santa Rosa on Friday. (UC Berkeley by Jeremy Snowden)

Berkeley students, alums take on ‘back-breaking’ work at wildfire evacuation center

A reporter reflects: ‘We are living in the eternal Now’

A UCPD officer speaks with Santa Rosa residents on Tuesday. Nine campus police officers have responded to the disaster. (UCPD photo)

‘It is part of what I do:’ UC police support wildfire victims

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