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New Tools to Visualize the Insides of Volcanos
Penny Wieser, a 2022 Rose Hills Innovator, is developing a new approach to study the magma stored deep beneath a volcano.
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New Journal Rapid Reviews|Infectious Diseases Fights Against Health Disinformation
UC Berkeley and MIT researchers launch a joint journal for emerging medical and public health topics.
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Maria Laura Delle Monache Receives IEEE TCCPS Mid-Career Award
Delle Monache was recognized "for contributions to modeling and control of CPS Transportation systems."
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UC Berkeley Launches AI Training Program To Address Criminal Justice System Inequalities With Support From $3M NSF Grant
UC Berkeley researchers launch a pioneering interdisciplinary training program that will blend criminal justice and computer science to help reduce systemic inequities in the criminal legal system.
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Five UC Berkeley-Led Projects Awarded California Climate Action Grants
The awards will advance research on mitigating wildfire risk, ensuring the equitable distribution of water and improving K-12 climate justice education.
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Novel Brain Implant Helps Paralyzed Woman Speak Using a Digital Avatar
Berkeley engineers explain how advances in AI could help restore natural communication.
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Ashok Gadgil Recognized As 2023 R&D Leader of the Year
UC Berkeley professor Ashok Gadgil was named as the R&D Leader of the Year in the annual R&D 100 Awards program sponsored by R&D World Magazine.
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New Research Shatters Outdated Pay-Gap Myth That Women Don’t Negotiate
Contrary to popular belief, professional women now report negotiating their salaries more often than men, but they get turned down more often.
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UC Berkeley School of Public Health Launches Center for Health Innovations and Entrepreneurship
UC Berkeley School of Public Health launches the new Berkeley Center for Health Innovations and Entrepreneurship to create solutions for the health problems faced by an aging population.
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Scientists Develop Parallel Method for Fog Harvesting and Water Treatment
UC Berkeley researchers demonstrate how a nanoengineered steel mesh with a solar-powered coating can collect droplets from fog and make water safe for drinking.
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Berkeley Public Health Launches Major Study on Effects of Climate Change and Social Inequality on Deadly Fungal Infections
Researchers launch major study using big data to pinpoint fungal disease emergence and how a changing climate will affect their spread.
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Brain Recordings Capture Musicality of Speech — With Help From Pink Floyd
The goal? To capture the electrical activity of brain regions tuned to attributes of the music to see if they could reconstruct what the patient was hearing.
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Hundred-year Storms? That's How Long They Last on Saturn.
A new study now shows that Saturn also has long-lasting megastorms with impacts deep in the atmosphere that persist for centuries.
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Liberals Are Happy With California Democracy. Conservatives, Not So Much
Most California voters have a positive view of the state’s democracy, but they’re deeply divided along partisan lines over lagging diversity in the electorate and perceived risks of fraud in voting processes.
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Using Tech to Break Bottlenecks in Wildlife Monitoring
A new project funded by a UC Natural Reserve System Climate Award aims to make biodiversity monitoring more efficient.
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As Refugees Surge, European Voters Show ‘Resilient’ Support, Study Finds
New research co-authored at UC Berkeley finds European support remains solid for refugees who are forced to leave their home countries.