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“Climate change isn’t just making malaria worse or better—it’s moving it.... We see relief in the current hotspots and new risk nearly everywhere else.” — Tamma Carleton, Berkeley professor Learn how climate change is redrawing the malaria map in Africa: bit.ly/4fCXETt
Feeling nostalgic 💙💛 [Video description: Photos and videos from the 90s of UC Berkeley's community, campus, and events, set to "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls. The first few seconds has text on-screen asking: “UC Berkeley, what were you like in the 90s?”]
Berkeley engineers have developed a breakthrough approach to overcoming the long-standing trade-off between speed, field of view, and resolution in optical microscopy. bit.ly/3U3BP8q
New research indicates that continued climate change could severely increase wildfire above natural levels at national parks. The study offers park managers data to reduce risks by using intentional fires to reduce the vegetation that can fuel more destructive wildfires. bit.ly/4x23btO
Does misinformation on Facebook and Instagram change what you believe? Berkeley Ph.D. student Olivier Bergeron-Boutin tested that question on both social media platforms during the 2020 presidential election. bit.ly/4vT7CXb
UC Berkeley author Bora Lee Reed immigrated from Korea as a child in the 1970s. In her new novel, Reed builds on her family’s experience and her research into the devastating Korean War to tell a deeply human story of struggle, loss and reunion. bit.ly/45shpsc
“How do we find purpose? How do you find a sense of calling no matter what you’re doing?” Berkeley psychology professor Dr. Dacher Keltner answers these questions in a recent feature on The Mel Robbins Podcast. #Psychology #Purpose #Happiness bit.ly/4wTxe6V
UC Berkeley’s Possibility Lab creates a new model for higher education by ensuring everyday Californians shape state policy. Through civic engagement, they turn public insights on key issues, including housing and climate, into data lawmakers can use. #CivicEngagement #PublicPolicy bit.ly/4wl15Fu
After being shot five times in a gang-related incident, Danny Muñoz spent his recovery in deep reflection. Today, he’s a “Double Bear” (Sociology ’23, MPP ’25) and a Senior Policy Analyst with Legal Services for Prisoners with Children—tackling the root causes of systemic injustice. bit.ly/4wgnMKP
While the team’s primary goal is to save the source of chocolate for future generations, they hope their work also builds public support for genetic engineering of crops: The same methods that they are now using to save cacao could also be applied to staple foods facing similar threats.
A future without chocolate seems almost unimaginable. But according to UC Berkeley’s Brian Staskawicz, it is a very real possibility. Learn more in this thread.🧵
There’s a famous quote attributed to the eminent scientist Richard Feynman: “What I cannot create, I do not understand.” Those eight words are a driving force for Patrick Shih, an associate professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley.
A new study from Berkeley researchers provides evidence that chimpanzees can rationally revise their beliefs when presented with new information. ls.berkeley.edu/news/new-psy...
This is the story of UC Berkeley’s innovation and entrepreneurship — how fundamental research and translational innovation aren't competing priorities but complements. How the #1 public university lifts students up the economic ladder while generating breakthrough discoveries that change the world.
Two Nobel Prizes in one week. Research in chemistry, physics, AI and engineering that is regularly inspiring startups to solve the world’s most pressing problems. UC Berkeley ranked No. 1 for three straight years in startups founded, surpassing Stanford, Harvard and MIT.
After winning the Nobel Prize, Yaghi was clear about the role of accessible education: “This recognition is really a testament to the power of the public school system in the U.S.” He also said federal grants directly led to the work that is changing the planet today.
Omar Yaghi grew up in Amman, Jordan, where he was responsible for collecting fresh drinking water. "I learned that water is precious," he said. Those experiences laid the foundation for his work developing MOFs that have revolutionized chemistry, and earned him the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Edward Miguel, the son of immigrants from Uruguay and Poland, knew early on that his life in the U.S. was different from his family around the world. As faculty co-director of @cega-uc.bsky.social and a professor of economics, he’s figuring out how to improve the lives the poorest people on earth.
From wildfire preparedness in Berkeley to clean drinking water in the Central Valley, UC Berkeley researchers are working alongside communities to find solutions to problems affecting California residents. The results are already changing lives.
ICYMI, professor emeritus John Clarke shared the Nobel Prize in physics with John Martinis and Michel Devoret, who worked alongside Clarke at Cal. In chemistry, Professor Omar Yaghi was recognized for developing metal-organic frameworks. Yaghi is our 28th faculty member who has won a Nobel Prize.
UC Berkeley researchers have created a 3D printer that works in zero gravity, potentially giving astronauts the power to create replacement parts on the fly.
UC Berkeley has been sending experiments to Mars for nearly 60 years, helping scientists understand what shaped the planet we see today. But the latest mission may be a crucial step towards putting astronauts on the planet.
Chef-turned-chemist Vayu Hill-Maini has a passion: to transform food waste into culinary delights using fungi.
Austin Whitney was 18 when a car accident left him paralyzed from the waist down. When he stood out of his wheelchair and walked across the stage at his UC Berkeley graduation thousands in the crowd stood alongside him in thunderous applause.
Immunotherapy is a breakthrough for which researchers James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo shared a 2018 Nobel Prize, in large part thanks to work Allison did as director of UC Berkeley’s Cancer Research Laboratory.
Cancer is a personal disease. Nearly 2 in 5 people in the U.S. will develop cancer over the course of their lifetime, meaning almost everyone knows someone who has fought it. Until the discovery of immunotherapy, cancer treatments were crude tools with painful side effects.
‘Startup Campus’ stitches together the eras of UC Berkeley’s innovative history, from its early days to its current place as a top-ranked institution for generating new ventures and startup leaders.
You know it. You know the story. 🥇 UC Berkeley is ranked the top public university in the nation according to the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings of the best global universities. Way to go, Bears. It’s all because of you! 💙🐻💛
