Excellence in Research
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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
10
Nobel Laureates
144
Members of the National Academy of Sciences
251
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2021 – 2022
Research Funding
In 2021-2022, UC Berkeley campus received $871 million in research funding from external sources.
Latest Research News
January 31, 2023
New fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Eleven UC Berkeley faculty members have been elected lifetime fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
January 31, 2023
Building the Materials for Next-Gen Tech
Felix Fischer, a 2022 Heising-Simons Faculty Fellow, uses his organic chemistry background to build materials for next-generation computers, sensors and communications platforms.
January 31, 2023
With rapidly increasing heat and drought, can plants adapt?
Researcher Isaac Lichter-Marck is the first to provide evidence to resolve a long-standing evolutionary debate: Did iconic desert plants adapt to arid conditions only after they invaded deserts? Or did they come preadapted to the stresses of desert living?
In the Media
Transfusing young mice with blood from older rodents quickly triggers ageing, suggesting that cellular ageing isn't just a case of wear and tear. There is a longstanding hypothesis that surgically connecting an old mouse with a young rodent causes a…
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have created a new COVID-19 therapeutic that could one day make treating SARS-CoV-2 infections as easy as using a nasal spray for allergies. Anders Näär, a professor of metabolic...
Differences in wealth and differences in income are the wrong ways to measure economic inequality, and going by either of them "dramatically overstates" the degree of inequality in the United States, a working paper argues. The right measure of…
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