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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 7, 2018
A new analysis of UK voters' attitudes toward the European Union over the past 50 years, co-authored by economics professor Barry Eichengreen for the U.S.-based National Bureau of Economic Research, has found that Eurosceptic baby boomers…
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November 1, 2018
California needs 3.4 million new homes to meet current housing needs, according to a new report discussed at a Wednesday forum featuring affordable housing and urban policy professor Carol Galante, director of Berkeley's Terner…
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October 31, 2018
Immunotherapy -- the use of medicines to help the body's immune system fight pathogens -- is dramatically increasing melanoma survival rates, and the key discovery behind it was made by student Matthew Krummel in a Berkeley lab in the 1990s…