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Mind & body

Indigenous knowledge helps biotech find new drugs. This grad student wants those companies to give back.

Many successful drugs are based on medicinal plants used and stewarded for generations by Native communities. A UC Berkeley doctoral student says these communities should also benefit.

William Carter wears headphones and listens as a computer program reads text from transcribed slave ship logs, the original of which is displayed on a computer screen.

People

With newly digitized slave ship logs, Berkeley Ph.D. student examines race, power — and literacy

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Campus & community

Berkeley Talks: What are Berkeley’s Latinx Thriving Initiatives?

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Mind & body

How Berkeley Public Health is becoming an antiracist school

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How queen jaks is helping make teaching at Berkeley Haas more inclusive

Berkeley leaders, scholars react to Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action

Femi Ogundele smiles at the camera wearing a black shirt and blue blazer

Affirmative action: What can other schools learn from UC Berkeley’s experience?

Students, staff and faculty celebrate the 50th anniversary of UC Berkeley's Asian American and Asian Diasporas Studies department.

DEI programs are tools for student development, not political fodder

How does the universe work? Promoting diversity can help answer that.

Doaa Dorgham with Berkeley students from the SSWANA Initiative

How using ‘love as resistance’ can bring collective liberation

The faces of the five recipients of the UC Berkeley 2023 Distinguished Teaching Award are in circles in this composite image.

Five UC Berkeley instructors chosen for 2023 Distinguished Teaching Award

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UC Berkeley mourns, celebrates the life of disability rights icon Judith Heumann

Amrita Bhasin: In the tech and startup world, female representation matters

Students gather on Feb. 12 for a candlelight vigil at Sather Gate to honor the quake victims in Turkey and Syria.

Quakes in Turkey and Syria hit home at Berkeley, where aid is underway

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Ty-Ron Douglas: Bridging the academic and athletic worlds

A workman removes lettering from Moses Hall on the morning that campus officials announced the building was being unnamed. The worker is chiseling the letters off and standing atop a ladder.

UC Berkeley’s Moses Hall is unnamed; its namesake held racist beliefs

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