faculty

Two students hug each other wearing their regalia in the bleachers at UC Berkeley's 2025 campuswide commencement on May 17.

Campus & community

At UC Berkeley’s campuswide commencement, grads were grateful for their personal growth — and four Big Game wins in a row

Saturday’s sun-filled ceremony at California Memorial Stadium was attended by 7,000 new graduates and 23,000 of their loved ones.

Malcolm Potts speaking

People

Dr. Malcolm Potts, gutsy global changemaker for reproductive health and women’s rights, dies at 90

a young child looking through two bars of the wall between the US and Mexico

People

To understand immigration today, a UC Berkeley sociologist documented 200 personal stories

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Research

A spate of suicides drew this alumna back to UC Berkeley to confront mental health issues in academia

Fiona McFarlane holds an award for The Story Prize and smiles

English Professor Fiona McFarlane’s ‘Highway Thirteen’ wins The Story Prize

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How is slavery represented at American tourist sites today?

Headshots of Helen Bateup, Dan Garcia, Kranthi Mandadapu, Mark Sandberg and Sarah Stanley

‘Tremendously effective teachers’: Five UC Berkeley instructors receive Distinguished Teaching Award

protesters in a crowd with signs reading Science Saves Lives, Don't Silence Science and Fascism Hates Science

Researchers and students gather in Sproul Plaza to ‘Stand up for Science’

A collage showing headshots of Stuart Russell, Kristin Persson, David Schaffer, Victoria Coleman and Margaret Torn.

Five UC Berkeley faculty named to National Academy of Engineering

After the Palisades Fire, student Max Rodman looks at the rubble that once was his family home. His knee is wrapped because he was recovering from surgery.

After the LA wildfires, stories emerge at UC Berkeley of great loss, support and strength

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Susan Stone named dean of Berkeley Social Welfare

Litwack gestures while speaking in front of a bookcase

New African American history lecture series created to honor beloved professor

Jelani Nelson uses computer science tools to replicate human thought

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UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna receives National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Two young girls sit closely together in this scene from the HBO series

No. 1 book of the century, ‘My Brilliant Friend’, is subject of UC Berkeley research, courses

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Ken Ribet awarded math prize for influential proof