Research & Innovation

Congratulations to the eleven UC Berkeley faculty members named AAAS Fellows. The newly elected Fellows include a tech pioneer, the author of a book on nature’s poisons and a neuroscientist who can decode what you are seeing from your brain wave activity.

Eleven UC Berkeley faculty members have been elected 2025 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.

The honorees, announced today (Thursday, March 26), are among nearly 500...

Carol Nekesa doesn’t know if she was ever infected by parasitic worms. But it’s likely, she says, since most kids in her community had them. “It was just a normal part of childhood,” she says.

Carol grew up in the 1980s in a rural village in Kenya’s Busia County. Like many regions in Sub-Saharan Africa at the time, Busia lacked the infrastructure for clean water and modern sanitation, leading to the pervasive spread of infectious diseases.

Parents feared deadly outbreaks like malaria and cholera, often unaware of the slower, hidden damage caused by intestinal worms. The...

UC Berkeley’s Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI), a unit housed at the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion (BCSR) under the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI), has been awarded a $5 million grant from the Lilly Endowment’s Christian Storytelling Initiative. This landmark funding is...

The term “person of color” has grown increasingly common in American public life. A new Berkeley Political Science paper, “Who Counts as a ‘Person of Color’? The Roles of Ancestry, Phenotype, Self-Identification and Other Factors” seeks to answer what the term actually means to the public, and more specifically, how Americans decide who falls under that label.

UC Berkeley Political Science Ph.D. student William Halm conducted a survey experiment to determine which characteristics matter most in classifying someone as a person of color....