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Yakun Sophia Shao and Gireeja Ranade, UC Berkeley EECS
The National Science Foundation recognized electrical engineering and computer sciences assistant professors Yakun Sophia Shao and Gireeja Ranade with Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards. 
headshot of Berkeley economist Gabriel Zucman, wearing a light blue shirt, with a tree in the background and tessellation borders on left and right.
Gabriel Zucman is a UC Berkeley economist who has helped propel globally influential research on tax avoidance and economic inequality.
Richmond CA refinery
The risk of flood-related contamination will fall disproportionately on the state’s most marginalized communities.
Sergey Levine speaks from a stage with a large screen projecting the Mars rover in the background
Sergey Levine delivered the second of four Distinguished Lectures on the Status and Future of AI.
brain illustration with noise waves superimposed
New research shows that AI systems can process signals in a way that is remarkably similar to how the brain interprets speech.
Doctors and nurses wearing masks gather in an operating room
A Berkeley Labor enter study found that about half a million workers and their families would benefit financially from such a wage increase.
Professor Alessandra Lanzara in her lab
Scientists have observed long-lived excitons in a topological material, opening intriguing new research directions for optoelectronics and quantum computing.
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Two California water engineers are working with the Data Science Discovery program to develop a drinking water regulation chatbot.
A Black rhino after being relocated.
New study found that partnering with local communities made each attempt significantly more successful.
Light the Way seeks to raise money for core needs, not for "nice-to-haves."
Programs in areas including business, computer science, public affairs, engineering and chemistry were all labeled No. 1 in the nation, according to U.S. News.
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A team of Berkeley Law students and faculty affiliated with the school’s International Human Rights Law Clinic have succeded in bringing the 2010 killing of Anastasio Rojas by U.S. Border Patrol agents in front of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
headshots in black and white of MSNBC's Rachel Maddow (left), CNN's Don Lemon, and Tucker Carlson of Fox News, surrounded by concentric circles in deep blue, light blue and red, to represent partisan media bubbles
In a time of growing concern about divisive media and rising polarization, the new study found that one in five registered Republicans watches at least eight hours of right-wing Fox News per month. Some 15% of Democrats watch a similar amount of coverage on networks MSNBC and CNN.
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The new UC Berkeley fellows are medical anthropologist Charles Briggs, philosopher John Campbell, neuroscientist Marla Feller, playwright Philip Kan Gotanda, physicist Dung-Hai Lee and political scientist Amy Lerman.
John Schulman stands at a podium in front of a projection of black text on a white background.
Berkeley News spoke with Schulman about why he chose Berkeley for graduate school, the allure of towel-folding robots, and what he sees for the future of artificial general intelligence.
Jill Banfield and Jennifer Doudna at the IGI building at UC Berkeley
$70M funding will catalyze a bold new initiative led by Jennifer Doudna and Jill Banfield to apply precision genome editing to microbial communities.
a row of blue lockers in a school hallway
Rates of school discipline fluctuate widely and predictably throughout a school year and increase significantly faster for Black students than for their white counterparts, University of California, Berkeley, researchers have found.