Research News

When it comes to the water side of 30x30, most programs focus primarily on conservation of oceans, but a new study by researchers argues that freshwater ecosystems must not be neglected.

Tens of millions of years of history unfold among the movable shelves of the University of California Museum of Paleontology. 

The human brain has an immense power to change. Andrea Gomez wants to know how cells and molecules in the brain enable that flexibility and change— called brain plasticity.

Professor Ulrike Malmendier discusses her role as a top economic expert in Europe.

Professor Sonia Katyal won a Dukeminier Award for her article “The Gender Panopticon: AI, Gender, and Design Justice".

By July 1, California’s Reparations Task Force must finish its report on the harms African Americans have faced since California became a state in 1850 and recommend how the state should repair the damage for all descendants of enslaved people now residing here.

Professor Deirdre K. Mulligan has been tapped to join the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy as Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer for Policy.

A panel discussion with four leading economists about what it’ll take to rebuild Ukraine’s infrastructure, education systems and institutions.

California voters are giving President Joe Biden his highest ratings since mid-2021, but more Republican voters are breaking with former President Donald Trump and turning to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, according to a new Berkeley IGS Poll.

Berkeley News spoke with Maslach about her new book, what that pandemic revealed about work, and when to walk away.

As the war in Ukraine enters its second year, researchers warn that ongoing economic fallout may fuel a new wave of land acquisitions across the globe. 

Prof. Daniel Nomura receives the ASPIRE Award for developing next-generation therapies and therapeutic modalities for cancer using covalent chemoproteomic platforms.

Four UC Berkeley faculty members have been awarded the 2023 Bakar Prize.

Climate change isn’t the only threat facing California’s birds. Urban sprawl and agricultural development are forcing many native species to adapt to new and unfamiliar habitats.

Gopala Anumanchipalli, a 2021 Rose Hills Innovator, is engineering systems that can give people with disease and disability a new way to talk.

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected to its ranks UC Berkeley’s Kenichi Soga, a geotechnical engineer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.