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People

A Berkeley environmental epidemiologist’s journey from Woodstock to America’s salad bowl

A longtime professor of public health, Brenda Eskenazi’s research has taken her all over the world, producing revelatory studies on the health hazards of exposure to pesticides, dioxins, metals, tobacco smoke, air pollution and other toxic substances.

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Research

Undernutrition may be key driver of measles outbreaks in low- and middle-income countries

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Mind & body

Do animals get jealous like people? Researchers say it’s complicated.

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Mind & body

Bay Area soda taxes don’t just affect sales. They help change people’s minds.

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UC Berkeley professor takes stock of the CDC’s post-COVID reforms

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UC Berkeley’s Center for Effective Global Action launches major new partnership with USAID

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Black students are punished more often, ‘no matter how you slice it’

A robotic hand types on a computer keyboard, signifying the advances in AI technology's ability to be creative and craft stories.

Don’t worry. Study shows you’re likely a more creative writer than ChatGPT. For now.

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Anxious about the election? UC Berkeley psychologists explain how to cope

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In a time of bitter polarization, Berkeley researchers find a promising solution

Economist James A. Robinson, sitted at a desk in a happily cluttered office, smiling as he waits to start a video interview

Economist James A. Robinson, a new Nobel laureate, left a lasting impact in his years at UC Berkeley

an older man, at left, confers in a medical office with a doctor (at right) who is holding out a prescription vial.

“Altruistic” doctors put patients before profits — and achieve better results, study finds

An overhead photo of a child using a laptop, signaling how children spend an increasing amount of time online and may be exposed to increasing amount of concerning content and disinformation

To make children better fact-checkers, expose them to more misinformation — with oversight

An early education teacher, holding an open books, sits cross-legged as she reads to a small group of toddlers.

Poverty-level wages pose urgent problem for U.S. childcare, study finds

Two people on a construction site talk, with a heart rate monitor line transposed on the lower part of the image, symbolizing the link between workplaces and health outcomes.

Racially balanced workplaces may protect employees against cardiovascular disease

two toddlers in a room, with one looking over the shoulder of the other as they play with blocks. the child playing with the blocks has amassed several in front of him.

Can toddlers help explain the origins of our bias for wealth?

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