January 14, 2021
January 5, 2021
New York Times
Nobody believes it was ET phoning, but radio astronomers admit they don’t have an explanation yet for a beam of radio waves that apparently came from the direction of the star Proxima Centauri.
December 7, 2020
UC Berkeley Psychology Professor Alison Gopnik receives 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Psychological Science. The Association’s Highest Honors Recognize Outstanding Contributions to Science. Read more here: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2021-lifetime-achievement-awar...
December 2, 2020
Prof. Janet Yellen, trailblazing former Fed chair, is Biden’s Treasury pick.
December 1, 2020
Berkeley News
Berkeley professor Nikki Jones wins national award for criminology research
California Magazine
Finding My Father: Linguist Deborah Tannen Explores Her Father’s Unlived Lives & Loves in New Memoir
Finding My Father: Linguist Deborah Tannen Explores Her Father’s Unlived Lives & Loves in New Memoir
November 23, 2020
Join us for the Baxter Liberty Initiative
The Tarnishing of the Golden State: How Poorly Designed Policies Killed the California Dream
Tue, Dec 8, 2020 4:00 PM
The presentation will discuss changes in the focus of California public policies over time, how those changes have raised the cost of living for Californians and reduced quality of life, and how they disproportionately have affected historically disadvantaged groups.
Speaker Bio
November 18, 2020
Berkeley News
The names of the University of California, Berkeley’s LeConte Hall and Barrows Hall will be removed, campus officials announced today. The decision, capping a formal review process, was made in response to growing awareness of the controversial legacies of the halls’ namesakes — all of them early, prominent members of the UC faculty — that clash with UC Berkeley’s mission and values.
November 13, 2020
Quanta Magazine
Given that everything in the universe reduces to particles, a question presents itself: What are particles?
October 23, 2020
With a visionary investment connecting life sciences to entrepreneurship, Mark and Stephanie Robinson are fast tracking innovation at UC Berkeley. The Robinsons have given a total of $10 million to support bio-entrepreneurship at Berkeley, creating resources for undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty that leverage our university’s edge in basic science research while preparing the next generation of business leaders.
October 21, 2020
Join us today at 5 PM for a live event:
https://matrix.berkeley.edu/event/2020-election-and-politics-racial-justice
October 7, 2020
University of California, Berkeley, biochemist Jennifer Doudna today won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, sharing it with colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier for the co-development of CRISPR-Cas9, a genome editing breakthrough that has revolutionized biomedicine.
October 6, 2020
Berkeley News
Reinhard Genzel, a professor emeritus of physics and of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, will share half the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics with UCLA professor Andrea Ghez “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy.”
Berkeley News
Polina Lishko, a Ukrainian-born physiologist whose work at the University of California, Berkeley, has already led to the development of promising new non-hormonal contraceptives for women and could lead to male or unisex contraceptives, has been chosen to receive a 2020 MacArthur “genius” Award.
October 2, 2020
Aware of the vital importance of exemplary graduate students in life sciences research, the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation has initiated a scholarship program to provide funding for new Ph.D. students. But its efforts go far beyond simple, across-the-board scholarship support. Holding a firm belief that all qualified applicants should be included in the life sciences enterprise, the Foundation has chosen to focus on two groups that do not traditionally garner the strongest financial support -- international students and women. The Curci Foundation Ph.D.
September 14, 2020
Berkeley Talks: Berkeley Psychology Professor Allison Harvey in conversation with Susan Hoffman on How to use sleep and circadian science to get better rest.
September 2, 2020
Read our interview with Charter Hill Society Honorary Chair Anthony McCusker.
August 18, 2020
Read our interview with Charter Hill Society for the Social Sciences member, Scott McDonald.
August 5, 2020
Berkeley Psychology Professor Matthew Walker wins Carl Sagan science prize. Read more here.