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Berkeley Research at a Glance
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Top U.S. University with highest number of highly ranked graduate programs
8
Nobel laureates
144
Members of the National Academy of Sciences
235
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2017 – 2018
Research Funding Sponsors
Each year, the Berkeley campus receives well over one-half billion dollars in research support from external sources.
Latest Research News
January 2, 2019
New year brings accolades to history department
A “bumper crop” of prestigious awards, prizes and honors will be presented Wednesday, Jan. 3 in Chicago to UC Berkeley faculty members by the American Historical Association, the nation’s most important professional association for historians.
December 31, 2018
Wireless ‘pacemaker for the brain’ could be new standard treatment for neurological disorders
A new neurostimulator developed by engineers at UC Berkeley can listen to and stimulate electric current in the brain at the same time, potentially delivering fine-tuned treatments to patients with diseases like epilepsy and Parkinson’s. The device, named the WAND, works like a “pacemaker for the brain,” monitoring the brain’s electrical activity and delivering electrical stimulation if it detects something amiss.
December 21, 2018
Advancement of artificial intelligence opens health data privacy to attack
Advances in artificial intelligence have created new threats to the privacy of health data. A new UC Berkeley study suggests current laws and regulations are nowhere near sufficient to keep an individual’s health status private in the face of AI development.
Featured in the Media
January 7, 2019
Deadly plant pathogens, including sudden oak death, are being introduced to California landscapes through well-intentioned habitat restoration efforts, a team of scientists led by adjunct environmental science, policy, and management professor…
January 7, 2019
American diplomats in Cuba who complained in 2016 of high-pitched, droning sounds that were giving them headaches, nausea, and hearing loss -- and indeed were shown to have signs of concussion and other brain injuries -- may have been mistaking…
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January 4, 2019
C. Brenhin Keller, a postdoctoral fellow at the campus-affiliated Berkeley Geochronology Center, stumbled upon an explanation for a geological mystery called the Great Unconformity during his research on zircons, minerals that are so…