Megan Sousa

The lab’s varied research covers topics such as language acquisition, cognitive development, and the appearance and expansion of social skills.

At the Elias Lab, Maggie Raboin, a graduate student, is studying the ways that sound affects invertebrates such as spiders.

I told him I was attending UC Berkeley, and as I explained my experience as a transfer student, I began to realize that the process of donating blood was surprisingly comparable. 

It can be nice to get an honest perspective on some of your campus expectations. Here are our perspectives on a few common ones.

COVID-19 — the disease sweeping across the globe and leaving shelter-in-place and quarantine orders in its wake — is reshaping American child care and presenting challenges to both parents now working from home as well as to parents who continue working outside of the house.

As UC Berkeley celebrates its 150th year of admitting female students, it’s important to discuss the presence female scientists have had on campus.

My journey into spontaneous living began in the misty and tropical mountains of Northern Taiwan when I was 17.

Sleep also has a complex relationship with the onset and management of many chronic disorders, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and depression.

In the last few decades, nutrition research has begun to focus on chronic illnesses, requiring a much more complex understanding of nutrients’ impacts and interactions.

The Azorean Portuguese community in the Bay Area is surprisingly expansive. Those that made the long sail to the East Coast spread out in the United States, especially to places that were similar to the Azores in climate (making them ideal for dairy farms).