integrative biology

In March 2020, UC Berkeley implemented a universal pass/no pass policy for the semester, setting a campus precedent for an adjusted grading system during remote schooling. Adjustments were extended through fall 2020 and spring 2021, with various differences between colleges.

The Graduate Diversity Council in the environmental science, policy and management department called for anti-racist action from its faculty in a petition.

How have UC Berkeley professors spent their favorite summers? Read on to find out what campus faculty have done during their most memorable summers.

UC Berkeley archaeologist Melanie Miller and her colleagues have discovered evidence that an ancient civilization in South America known as the Tiwanaku created plant-based psychoactive substances.

For years, the main driver of evolutionary change in hummingbird bills was thought to be feeding ecology, but a recent study by UC Berkeley researchers, published in the journal "Integrative Organismal Biology," proves otherwise. Some male hummingbirds in the tropics of South America favor bills more suited to fighting than feeding.

Neurologist and campus professor emerita Marian Diamond — who examined portions of Albert Einstein's brain and discovered the brain’s ability to develop well into adulthood — died July 25. She was 90.

Michael Botchan has recently been appointed as permanent dean of the Division of Biological Sciences in the College of Letters and Sciences, according to a campus press release.

About 2,300 faculty members from the UC and CSU systems, including more than 400 UC Berkeley faculty members, have signed an open letter urging President Donald Trump to continue efforts to meet greenhouse gas emission targets set by the Paris Climate Agreement.

UC Berkeley graduate Zuben Rikleen, remembered for his kindness and his passion for medicine, died last month. He was 23 years old.

Researchers studied a species of "sky-diving" spiders in South America that exhibits a unique controlled movement when they descend, a behavior that may have significant implications for the evolution of arachnid — and possibly other aerial animal — flight.