California Institute of Technology

UC Berkeley welcomes two new additions to their faculty in the fields of economics and biological anthropology– Federico Echenique and Andrew Wooyoung Kim. 

Times Higher Education, or THE, ranked UC Berkeley as the eighth best university out of over 1,600 universities across the world in its 2022 World University Rankings list. 

A UC Berkeley-led research alliance aims to increase the number of postdoctoral scholars and faculty from historically underrepresented minority groups in STEM fields.

Ralph Basilio, the program and project manager at the California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory, discussed NASA's use of remote sensing and its connection to environmental policy decision-making at an event hosted by the Berkeley Forum on Tuesday night.

On Sept. 7 at around 3 a.m., UC Berkeley energy and chemistry professor Peidong Yang received a phone call informing him that he won the 2020 Global Energy Prize for his research.

By analyzing Juno spacecraft mission data, researchers at UC Berkeley and California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, were able to uncover previously unsolved principles of fluid motion.

UC Berkeley received a $25 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a multiuniversity initiative aiming to develop and understand quantum computing.

The UC system has invested more than $68 million into the Thirty Meter Telescope project as of April 30, according to a financial report from the UC Office of the President.

Known for his wisdom, brilliance and modesty, George Trilling, a former UC Berkeley physics professor and experimental particle physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, died April 30 at age 89.

Student advocates visited the UC Office of the President in Oakland on March 2 to demand the UC system to divest from the Thirty Meter Telescope project on Maunakea and direct funds toward a cost-of-living adjustment for graduate student employees.