Arts & Humanities Dean Janet Broughton offers her perspective on the impact of state budget cuts on language instruction programs at UC Berkeley.

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Robert Hass, an award-winning UC Berkeley professor of English and former U.S. poet laureate, has won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his latest book, "Time and Materials."

A number of faculty members in the College of Letters and Science have recently been elected to some of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies in the country.

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Focusing on the pots of the Ulua River Valley in northern Honduras, Rosemary Joyce, chair of Berkeley’s Anthropology Department, offers us a window into the Mesoamerican culture of the 8th century.

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The newly-launched Center for Interdisciplinary Bio-inspiration in Education and Research (CiBER) will encourage biologists, engineers, and others to reach across professional boundaries by studying how organisms work and move in their natural habitats. (For related articles, see Science Matters.)