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UC Berkeley is embarking on a new approach to advance medicine and global health. The Center for Unmet, Rare, and Emerging Diseases (CURED) will unite researchers across campus to find cures that other organizations are not pursuing.

Pharmaceutical companies seek a return on their investments. Medical schools and research centers require nearby patients. But what happens if a disease is new, uncommon, or concentrated...

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is rapidly transforming our society. It is also raising deep questions and profound concerns.

UC Berkeley’s Department of Philosophy is launching a new initiative to bring leading scholars to campus to discuss the most pressing philosophical questions surrounding AI.

A changing of the guard is coming to UC Berkeley’s venerable Center for New Music and Audio Technologies. For almost four decades, the institution known as CNMAT has served musicians and producers with groundbreaking research and tools. Now, longtime leader Edmund Campion is preparing to retire and hand over the reins to co-director and fellow music professor Carmine-Emanuele Cella.

Andrea Antoni didn’t take a traditional path to graduate school — if one exists for computational astrophysicists. On her last day of high school, she gave birth and became a single, working mother.

While volunteering at her child’s school, she met other mothers who worked in computer science and electrical engineering. She felt those careers represented practical ways to get an education and earn money. So, in her 30s...