Berkeley News

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Campus & community

UC Berkeley named top public school in the country by ‘U.S. News’

Of the more than 1,700 U.S. colleges and universities evaluated, Berkeley claimed the No. 1 spot of all public schools in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report rankings.

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Awards

Dacher Keltner, UC Berkeley psychologist, receives prestigious lifetime achievement award

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Campus news

Genetic study of nomadic herders in Kenya shows what it takes to adapt to desert living

Campus news

Health care isn’t working for everyone. Watch a professor explain why.

Spotlight: Community-Engaged Research

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Watch a professor explain community-engaged research in 101 seconds

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Wildfire season is here. UC Berkeley scholars are helping Bay Area communities prepare.

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With high schoolers’ help, UC Berkeley researchers investigate why so many students are chronically absent

Research

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Campus news

AI revolutionizes weather prediction to help farmers in India

Co-developed by UC Berkeley’s William Boos, an artificial intelligence-based weather model delivered a timely prediction of a stalled monsoon this season, helping farmers decide when to plant their crops.

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Mind & body

In the wild, chimps likely ingest the equivalent of several alcoholic drinks every day

A collage of 15 book covers, including The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (on a burgundy background with a large face), A Gesture Life (black-and-white cover), Tripmaster Monkey by Maxine Hong Kingston (image of a bridge), Comfort Woman (a woman's face), Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (dragons in a style associate with Asian scroll art), Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee (on a blue background), east goes west (a globe on top of a cubist body, accompanies by Chinese characters), Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee (a back-and-white image of an Asian man's face with a childhood photo superimposed), Fifth Chinese Daughter (a fairytale draying on top of a red background), China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston (red text and a dragon), America is in the Heart, No-No Boy (a body, fists covering his face, behind two strands of crossed red barbed wire, Dictee (a black-and-white landscape image), Obasan by Joy Kogawa (an Asian girl with a bowl cut looking through the window), and Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn (a romaneqseque sculpture of a woman)

Arts & culture

What counts as ‘Asian American literature,’ anyway?

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Humanities

Do chatbots have a moral compass? Researchers turn to Reddit to find out.

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Politics & society

In red state redistricting wars, Democrats have few good options, scholar says

Arts & culture

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Iconic Berkeley printmaker’s archive comes to The Bancroft Library

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With a 63-by-30 foot art installation, Stephanie Syjuco explores education and activism at BAMPFA

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Podcasts

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Berkeley Talks: How art allows us to see everyday things anew

Arneta Rogers

Voices Carry: Reproductive justice lawyer on the post-Dobbs landscape

People

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How Berkeley Alum Eugene Jarvis Revolutionized Arcade Gaming

Her sisters — and growing up working class in Sacramento — inspired this student to push for climate justice

Campus & community

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No. 1 again: UC Berkeley generates more startups and founders than any other university

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New $1 million gift to the Athletic Study Center will support student-athletes at a pivotal moment

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