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An empty courtroom, with U.S. flags flanking the bench on each side and a federal shield above the judge's chair.
With the rule of law under intense pressure, faculty, students, staff and alumni are working to defend the American way.
A hand points at a computer screen that shows brightly colored microscope images.
The new Berkeley-UCSF partnership will accelerating advances in clinical care by combining computing and medicine.
Professor Joshua Blumenstock in video thumbnail image showing him in interview with shantytown image inset image
Berkeley professor uses machine learning and AI to solve the world's biggest global development challenges.
A front-facing view of the U.S. Supreme Court
Hidetaka Hirota said that the Chief Justice's opinion "demonstrates how historians' work continues to matter in our society today.
closeup of hundreds of tiny blue, purple and green coral polyps
Berkeley biologists uncover clues to how the symbiosis between algae and corals have evolved.
superconducting quantum processing unit (QPU)
The eight-qubit quantum processor is one of California’s contributions to the time capsule, which will be opened in 2276.
Graphic featuring the book cover of The Atlantic Republic of Letters
Berkeley professor releases a new book on how Euro-American scholars helped shape colonialism.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Chancellor Rich Lyons
Announced Monday, the nonpartisan academic institute in the political science department will become a hub for research, teaching and civic engagement.
a hand inserted under a hood illuminated by blue light
Learn how a UC Berkeley professor's innovation can protect your skin.
An artistic reconstruction of the understory of a late Cretaceous forest based on 75-million-year-old fossils
Flowering plants, or angiosperms, now dominate Earth’s flora, but biologists thought they truly took off only after an asteroid impact 66 million years ago. A ‘botanical Pompeii’ containing fossilized seeds and fruits shows they prospered 10 million years earlier.
A close-up photo showing an EKG line, with a spike up and wavy lines after, adjacent to numbers showing heart rate.
A UC Berkeley-led project trained an AI system to detect cardiac risk from reading EKGs.
Barbed wire fence at Dade County Men’s Correctional Facility, FL.
New research claims excessive heat in Florida prisons could violate the Eighth Amendment.
two people shaking hands
A new study shows how women negotiators earn greater trust, satisfaction, and future opportunities.
Ben Yerger smiling at camera (circa 2004). Photo courtesy of the Yerger family.
How the legacy of educator Dr. Ben Yerger lives on through a fellowship, a family, and a new generation of teachers.
heads of two tawny cats with large fangs, one staring at viewer
A misidentified skull helped scientists to understand the evolutionary tendency toward longer fangs.
A pair of hands holds a small plastic box that contains a complex electronic chip.
A new device created by UC Berkeley researchers can sniff out gases emitted by harmful bacteria.