Faculty

Economics and Political Science Professor Barry Eichengreen wrote an op-ed that was published today in the The New York Times.

The growing value of cryptocurrency is resurrecting one of the most notorious features of the Wild West. Just as stagecoach drivers of the 19th century were ambushed by gold-seeking, gun-toting bandits, crypto holders and their families are increasingly finding themselves victims of...

How do you house equipment so sensitive to external factors that a building’s windows and elevators affect its results? For Shimon Kolkowitz, the Roger Herst Professor of Physics, you spend a year and a half overseeing a state-of-the-art lab renovation that will enable some of the world’s most precise measurements.

Allison Harvey knew she’d have to study hard when she enrolled in an 11-week course on parenting techniques earlier this year. A UC Berkeley professor of psychology who researches memory, habits and sleep, Harvey printed her notes and meticulously completed each week’s homework. She engaged with the instructors, who were also well-respected clinical psychologists. And she was far more engaged than her classmates, including her husband.

Yet, when the class ended, Harvey was confronted with a familiar reality: Despite studying hard, she’d forgotten many of the lessons she was...

Two hotly competing narratives have emerged over the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles and President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard and Marines to California. On one side, the protests symbolize crucial resistance to abuse and overreach by the Trump administration. On the other, radicals are torching cars and the troops are needed to restore law and order.

The ultimate political fallout is still unknown. But one scholar who has drilled deep into the subject is Omar Wasow, a professor at UC Berkeley who published a paper in 2020 showing that non-violent protest...