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…
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…
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…
Long-term exposure to the heavy metals found in commonly used cosmetics can cause adverse health effects, according to a new study by UC Berkeley researchers. Read More…
Antimatter opposes matter in many ways — but could that include gravity as well? Researchers at UC Berkeley are conducting experiments to see whether antimatter, which is made of antiparticles that have the same masses but opposite charges as particles of ordinary matter, can defy gravity. Joel Fajans, a professor Read More…
Recent research conducted by a UC Berkeley graduate student may shed light on the psychological motivations behind the ASUC Senate’s vote to pass SB 160 – a measure that divested the ASUC from companies affiliated with the Israeli military. Read More…
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced on Wednesday that 10 UC Berkeley professors are among 198 distinguished scholars to be inducted for 2013.
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The inner workings of the brain remain largely a mystery to neuroscientists, even with significant advances in the field over the last decade. However, a new discovery from UC Berkeley may help scientists understand one of the brain’s most important functions: its search mechanism. A recent study published April 21 Read More…
