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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
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Members of the National Academy of Sciences
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Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Each year, the Berkeley campus receives well over one-half billion dollars in research support from external sources.
Latest Research News
June 12, 2019
Number of young people facing poverty has increased over last decade
The number of young adults who fall at or below the federal poverty line has risen in the last 10 years, according to a new issue brief from the Berkeley Institute for the Future of Young Americans, a research center at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy.
May 28, 2019
UC receives patent for use of CRISPR-Cas9 to tune gene expression
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today issued a patent to the University of California (UC), the University of Vienna and French biologist Emmanuelle
May 24, 2019
Where do new stars form in galaxies?
Spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way are studded with cold clouds of hydrogen gas and dust, like chocolate chips in a loaded Toll House cookie.
Astronomers have long focused on these so-called molecular clouds, suspecting that they are hotspots for star formation. But are they?
Featured in the Media
May 29, 2019
America's national parks are proving especially vulnerable to human-caused climate change, a study led by associate adjunct environmental science, policy, and management professor Patrick Gonzalez found last year. The researchers noted…
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May 29, 2019
Racial segregation in the Bay Area was more pronounced in 2010 than it was in 1970, according to a new report from the Berkeley Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society. Co-authors Stephen Menendian, the institute's director of…
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May 28, 2019
Doubt is the driver of curiosity and the urge to learn, suggests a new study by Berkeley researchers. "It's very in vogue to talk about curiosity as a strategy to increase learning, but it's unclear how to engage people's curiosity," says …