Faculty

Linguistics Professor Gašper Beguš was featured in an article for The Guardian titled, "Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds."

We may appear to have little in common with sperm whales – enormous, ocean-dwelling animals that last shared a common ancestor with humans more than 90 million years ago. But the whales’ vocalized communications are remarkably similar to our own, researchers have discovered.

Not only do sperm whale have a form of “...

Geography Professor Emeritus Richard Walker was featured in a KQED article titled, "Housing, Tech and Taxes: 50 Years of Unaffordability in the Bay Area."

The carefully curated flower pots, matcha mixing bowls and Buddhist prayer beads at Kogura Co. in San José’s Japantown have drawn shoppers for decades.

Richard Kogura’s family has operated the Japanese gift and home goods store, now near the corner of Jackson and North Sixth streets, since his grandfather Kohei Kogura started the company in 1928...

Arguably, David Henkin’s new book has been in the works since he declared his allegiance to the St. Louis Cardinals at 7 years old, a team he lived nowhere near and had no family ties to. Today, Henkin is a UC Berkeley history professor who has researched and taught on subjects as diverse as Broadway, marriage and the origin of the seven-day week. His work on political party...

When Professor Gül Dölen joined UC Berkeley’s neuroscience and psychology departments in January 2024, the influential scientist got to work designing her new lab and office. Now, after an extensive renovation, Dölen can finally reveal the results, complete with dinosaur brain replicas, a wall-to-wall bookshelf, colorful floor tiles, trippy Beatles posters, and all manner of octopus paraphernalia.