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COVID-19 Resources for UC Berkeley Researchers
Berkeley Research at a Glance
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Top U.S. University with highest number of highly ranked graduate programs
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Nobel laureates
144
Members of the National Academy of Sciences
223
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2019 – 2020
Research Funding Sponsors
Each year, the Berkeley campus receives well over one-half billion dollars in research support from external sources.
Latest Research News
September 24, 2020
Metal wires of carbon complete toolbox for carbon-based computers
Transistors based on carbon rather than silicon could potentially boost computers’ speed and cut their power consumption more than a thousandfold — think of a mobile phone that holds its charge for months — but the set of tools needed to build working carbon circuits has remained incomplete until now.
September 24, 2020
Island-building in Southeast Asia created Earth’s northern ice sheets
The Greenland ice sheet owes its existence to the growth of an arc of islands in Southeast Asia — stretching from Sumatra to New Guinea — over the last 15 million years, a new study claims.
September 22, 2020
Can ripples on the sun help predict solar flares?
Solar flares are violent explosions on the sun that fling out high-energy charged particles, sometimes toward Earth, where they disrupt communications and endanger satellites and astronauts.
In the Media
September 24, 2020
Reeling from the worst fire season in California's history, 3 in 4 state voters say wildfires pose a greater threat today than ever before, yet they are divided sharply along party lines about what role climate change plays in the infernos,…
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September 18, 2020
UC Berkeley law professor Ian Haney López and human rights lawyer Tory Gavito examined what was happening among Hispanic voters and attempted to fashion a strategy for drawing communities - Latinos and others - into a multiracial…
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September 18, 2020
UC Berkeley professor Jennifer Doudna, one of the pioneers of the gene-editing technique known as CRISPR, thinks the biotech tool could be an essential one for combating COVID-19 and future pandemics. Due to its capacity to be "…