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Collage of three images: A simulated map of Bolinas, California, with plumes of grey smoke indicating wildfire; a screen capture from a video game showing a car on a road with wildfire ahead; a close-up of a board game, with the playing surface showing a map of Bolinas and cardboard tokens indicating vehicles and wildfire.
With $2.5 million from the National Science Foundation, an interdisciplinary, multicampus University of California research team is partnering with agencies and community organizations in the Bay Area to help residents respond to natural disasters more quickly — and more safely.
smog shown handing over freeway traffic
The 1972 Clean Air Act has driven spectacular decreases in pollution from U.S. passenger vehicles but poses a challenge for pollution policy in poor communities, according to the first comprehensive study of air pollution exhaust standards.
UC Berkeley-affiliated CIRCLES members pose in front of signed I-24 MOTION and CIRCLES banners at the end of testing week. (Photo & Caption Credit: Berkeley News)
CEE Professors Maria Laura Delle Monache and Alexandre M. Bayen discuss their research on the impact of AI-equipped vehicles on traffic jams and fuel consumption.
Girish Pahwa
Girish Pahwa has won the 2022 IEEE Electron Device Society (EDS) Early Career Award.
Abrams Kathy
Abrams tracks the efforts of organizers to fight anti-immigrant legislation and tackle related causes, including the ouster of Joe Arpaio.
a woman dozing off with a cup of coffee in front of a laptop
Scientists have discovered that you can wake up each morning without feeling sluggish by paying attention to three key factors: sleep, exercise and breakfast.
three people use a flashlight to peer into a scientific instrument
UC Berkeley has invested in research around basic quantum science, building a strong foundation across campus.
3 women at a chalkboard with masks
Female astronomers on average published about nine papers for every 10 published by men — a rate that has remained stagnant for decades.
Alexandre Bayen
An interdisciplinary team of industry and academic researchers led by Professor Alexandre Bayen has completed its most ambitious real-time traffic experiment to date
Dean Ann Harrison
A new book collects Harrison’s path-breaking work on globalization, trade, and foreign direct investment into a single volume. 
Dawn Song and David Wagner
Computer Science Profs. Dawn Song and David Wagner have won the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) Test-of-Time Award.
Four people standing with backs to viewers looking at sets of screen monitors of traffic.
In a massive traffic experiment scientists tested whether introducing just a few AI-equipped vehicles to the road can help ease “phantom” jams and reduce fuel consumption for everyone. The answer seems to be yes.
Prabal Dutta
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Associate Prof. Prabal Dutta has won the 2022 ACM SenSys Test of Time Award.
Tina Trujillo, a professor at the Graduate School of Education, looks into the camera. She is sitting in front of a row of bicycles.
Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics will train people to safely guide patients' psychedelic experiences in therapeutic and research settings.
red and blue temperature map of eastern Pacific
Computer simulations show that a driver of annual weather cycles has gone unrecognized: the changing distance between Earth and the sun.
Hands of senior woman choosing subscription or payment plan on tablet computer and paying with credit card
Berkeley Haas provides novel insight into the subscription model and that the market for online subscription services will be $900 billion by 2026.