Berkeley News

Students and community members gathered on Sproul Plaza Monday in a joint march of solidarity for the Afghan and Iranian communities at UC Berkeley, following weeks of demonstrations on campus and in the city of Berkeley.

For the first time, California will provide $15 million in ongoing funding to various academic recruitment and retention programs; however, concerns about how the funds will potentially be distributed have been raised.

Researchers at UC Berkeley’s Center for Human Sleep Science found a link between sleep deprivation and a decline in helpfulness in a study released Aug. 23.

Six days after Russia invaded Ukraine, UC Berkeley students and researchers from Russia and Ukraine rallied to express concerns over the humanitarian crisis and the inadequate support from campus.

UC Berkeley researchers collaborated on a study on negative urgency, or the tendency to act impulsively in response to strong, negative feelings.

Due to a campus-wide effort to increase diversity and remove barriers to higher education, most UC Berkeley graduate programs did not require the submission of a Graduate Record Examination, or GRE, for fall 2021.

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation gave a $1.5 million grant to UC Berkeley astrophysicist Carl Pennypacker and Tim Ball, president of Fireball Information Technologies, LLC, funding their efforts to improve infrared fire detectors.

UC Berkeley researchers helped publish a study June 22 looking into the structure of a new protein expressed by the SARS-CoV-2 ORF3a gene, the discovery possibly leading to further strides against COVID-19.

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education, or CASE, awarded four 2021 Circle of Excellence gold awards in June, with three given to Office of Communications and Public Affairs writers and one for a University Development and Alumni Relations team for its work on the Light the Way campaign's public launch event.

UC Berkeley will auction two nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, relating to Nobel Prize-winning inventions for the funding of future research and innovation.