Berkeley News

Crew members prep two traditional canoes to go sailing in clear waters in the Mariana Islands

Science & environment

Traditional Pacific navigators bring the intricate science of wayfinding to the Bay Area

Organized by Sophia Perez, Indigenous Technologies Coordinator for the Berkeley Center for New Media, a weeklong series of public workshops beginning March 9 will feature master navigators teaching everything from traditional canoe technology to ancient star-mapping.

A line of young U.S. Army recruits, men and women of different races and ethnic backgrounds, stands in a line with right hands raised.

Campus news

‘The Diversity Principle’: Tracking the long history of a powerful idea

A new mural with approximately 40 portraits, in shades of blue, depicting prominent female faculty, alumnae, staff and friends of UC Berkeley. A swirl of yellow, purple and blue, conveying the the ripple of water, connects the portraits, signifying the way the contributions from women in the past are linked to those of the present and future.

Campus & community

Sprawling new painting commemorates 150 years of women at UC Berkeley

A UC Berkeley professor and students arrange artifacts for the student-led exhibition on Etruscan civilization

Arts & culture

UC Berkeley Library unveils student-led exhibition on Etruscan civilization

Spotlight: Community-Engaged Research

A group of seven people stands and smiles in front of a large yellow disposal bin that is filled with small twigs and branches. The bin is on a hilly street next to a white house.

UC Berkeley is doing hundreds of research projects that go beyond the classroom and into communities. Here’s how.

A group photo of dozens of students standing on a beach at sunset in a photo taken during a recent tour across California to visit college campuses, organized by the UC Berkeley ETS team.

UC Berkeley college access program serving 1,500 students cut over ‘equity’ reference

Lisa Garcia Bedolla clip

What is community-engaged research? Watch a professor explain in 101 seconds

Research

Biology

‘Reprogramming’ our gut bacteria could be key to fighting disease

UC Berkeley’s Carlotta Ronda explains how CRISPR is turning our gut microbes into tiny, health-boosting factories in just 101 seconds.

two blue streaks at the tail end of a tadpole-shaped are of red and yellow

Campus news

Berkeley’s Blue and Gold satellites are now flying through Earth’s magnetotail — a first

A fire in a conifer forest

Research

We may be underestimating the true carbon cost of northern wildfires

a chimp sitting on the ground eating fruit, with a pile of partially eaten fruit at its feet

Mind & body

Urine tests confirm alcohol consumption in wild African chimps

Clouds of white-gray smoke billow from three smokestacks against a blue sky

Campus news

Why climate health research matters more than ever

Arts & culture

a dramatic black-and-white photo of Joyce DiDonato gently looking toward the sky with her hands lifting up, with the three strings musicians from the group Time for Three in the background.

How Emily Dickinson’s musical poetry pushes us to live more expansively

four small unfired clay figures depicting European merchants sit side by side in a line. You can see enormous attention to detail in the details on their coats, hands, hair and eyes.

In 18th‑century China, these artists made Europeans’ portraits. Only now are their identities emerging.

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Podcasts

a seated man in jacket and blue shirt holding a large yellow and red molecular structure

Berkeley Talks: Nobel laureate Omar Yaghi on turning air into water for all

Brian Galle

Voices Carry: Tax the ultrarich?

People

Photograph of Black people walking down a street where there are palm trees.

UC Berkeley Professor Darlène Dubuisson found ‘liberation’ in reading. It led her to study how Black people imagine better futures

Dean Richard Harland

Division of Biological Sciences Dean Richard Harland to conclude term in June 2027

Campus & community

Members of the California Straw Hat Band hype up the crowd at Fall Convocation.

UC Berkeley sees surge in student applications for fall 2026

Berkeley Social Sciences Dean Raka Ray speaks to Masters of Computational Social Sciences students.

UC Berkeley Social Sciences charts its future with new strategic plan

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