Social Sciences

This story was originally published by NPR.

Like many Americans, Pittsburgh-area resident Josh Lucas wishes the time change didn't have to happen.

"You get acclimated to a way of being, and then all of a sudden the sky is a different color, and you have to still function in the normal way," said Lucas.

And it's not always easy to keep functioning normally. In fact, most sleep researchers and clinicians say that the spring-forward time change is bad for our health.

In the days following the time change, the country sees a higher incidence of...

For over two decades, the Goldmans have nurtured a community of scholars from disadvantaged backgrounds who might otherwise never have found their way to academic success. These “diamonds in the rough,” as Ruth calls them, often arrive feeling like imposters but graduate as leaders. With Ruth’s experience as a Holocaust survivor and first-generation college student guiding their approach, the Goldmans have created a program that offers funding, mentorship, emotional support, and lifelong connections. Most remarkably, their scholars have achieved a 100 percent graduation rate, and...

UC Berkeley Economics Professor Chen Lian has recently been awarded a two-year, $75,000 fellowship from the Sloan Foundation. Since 1955, the prestigious fellowship has been awarded annually to U.S. and Canadian researchers excelling in “creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.”

Lian was inspired to pursue economics by the East Asian economic miracle — a period of rapid economic growth between 1965 and 1990. Lian’s research focuses on macroeconomics, behavioral economics and finance. He plans to use the $75,000 grant to further...

After graduating from Cal with a double major in political science and rhetoric in 1982, Walter Brown went straight to law school and has been practicing law for the past 40 years. While he has supported UC Berkeley in various ways since then, he realized last year that he wanted to give back more meaningfully.

Brown and his wife, Denise, decided to create a $100,000 fund for first-generation pre-law students through the Social Sciences Career Readiness Internship Program (SSCRIP)....