Faculty

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.

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...