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Arts & culture

Executive actions aim to reshape America’s cultural institutions. UC Berkeley scholars react

As the Trump administration seeks to redirect museum and arts organizations, Berkeley academics assess the impact of pulled funding and new directives.

A cassowary egg sits on cotton batting in a box. A professor is holding the box while someone touches the egg's shell with their fingers to feel the shell's texture. The egg is a shade of green that helps to camouflage it.

Campus news

Got eggs? This UC Berkeley museum has tens of thousands.

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

Research

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

full skeleton of a platypus against black background

Mind & body

Museums’ vertebrate collections go online — in 3D

blue, red, yellow and purple drawing of the head and neck of a dome-headed dinosaur

Did dome-headed dinosaurs sport bristly headgear?

a dinosaur skeleton next to a circular staircase

Losing track of (geologic) time at the UC Museum of Paleontology

Berkeley Talks: Artist William Kentridge on staying open to the ‘less good’ ideas

New leader named at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

Endangered Devils Hole pupfish is one of the most inbred animals known

a tryptic of photos of three women screaming

Berkeley students scream together for art project ‘OUTCRY’

Vince Medina and Louis Trevino, co-founders of Café Ohlone, stand together in the courtyard of the Hearst Museum, where construction is going on for a new home for the café.

PBS NewsHour features campus work to repatriate artifacts to Indigenous tribes

Art exhibition ‘Undoing Time’ explores incarceration and its aftermath

Angel Island arts project explores immigration, architectures of incarceration

black and white tryptic of a woman with a bowl

Filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha on the beauty of receiving the world

collage of old photo, dried plant, archivist Amy

Buried in archives, Civil War diary inspires biography of pioneering botanist

a rabbi in the 1930s reads books at a table

Berkeley Talks: Scholars on Roman Vishniac’s photos of Jewish life before WWII

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