Calbug, a project initiated by UC Berkeley’s Essig Museum of Entomology to digitize insect specimens, will employ volunteer archivists to catalog and sort through more than one million samples. Read More…
UC Berkeley alumna, Kim Wong Keltner, will be holding an author talk in Berkeley this Saturday to discuss her recent memoir Tiger Babies Strike Back, an account of her personal struggles being raised with an authoritative and cold or “tiger-parenting” style. Read More…
Instead of cracking codes and shutting down networks, UC Berkeley students participating in a hackathon hosted by Bloomberg this week, put their computer programming skills to use, improving their humanitarian business ventures. Read More…
Recent findings from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory reveal one of the causes of why some breast cancer patients relapse years after treatment. Read More…
UC Berkeley professor John Kubiatowicz presented a new operating system called Tessellation at the Design Automation Conference in Texas on Wednesday. Read More…
The Energy Biosciences Institute, a research program that partners with UC Berkeley and is funded by energy company BP, announced on Wednesday the recent awarding of its first intellectual property patent since the institute’s formation in 2007. The patent, originally granted in April, is entitled “Methods and compositions for improving sugar Read More…
Despite rising levels of total student debt over the past 10 years, better employment prospects and higher income enable most university students to pay off their loans, according to a report published last Monday by the Public Policy Institute of California. Read More…
This fall, UC Berkeley will hire three new professors and offer eight new fellowships to graduate students with funding from the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS). Read More…
More than 500 researchers and scientists from 44 different countries presented Governor Jerry Brown with a consensus statement outlining eminent environmental issues on Thursday. Read More…
African Americans, Asians and Hispanics are more likely to experience extreme heat waves because of where they live, according to researchers at UC Berkeley. Read More…
