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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
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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
November 7, 2018
Skin-like sensor maps blood-oxygen levels anywhere in the body
A new flexible sensor developed by engineers at UC Berkeley can map blood-oxygen levels over large areas of skin, tissue and organs, potentially giving doctors a new way to monitor healing wounds in real time.
November 6, 2018
Chronically anxious? Deep sleep may take the edge off
Extreme angst is on the rise nationally and globally, especially among teens and millennials. Among other factors, preliminary findings from UC Berkeley sleep researchers point to a chronic lack of deep restorative sleep.
November 2, 2018
Turning cars into robot traffic managers
Self-driving cars may one day do more than just get us from point A to point B. By adjusting their speed and position while they merge they could also help reduce the bottlenecks and random slowdowns on busy thoroughfares like the Bay Bridge, getting us where we’re going faster and more efficiently than if we all drove ourselves.
Featured in the Media
November 16, 2018
Psychology professor Alison Gopnik joins this program on early child development to discuss the relationship between children and the adults who care for them. Noting that parents often see their children as malleable, she says: "The idea…
November 14, 2018
Rapidly growing hospital consolidations in the past decade have largely eliminated competition and raised the cost of hospital admissions in most cases, according to a new analysis by researchers at Berkeley's Nicholas C. Petris Center on…
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November 14, 2018
Computer algorithms discriminate against black and Latino borrowers just as bank loan officers with biases do, according to a new Berkeley study. The researchers found that both online and human lenders earn higher profits by charging the…
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