Nobel Prize

On July 27, UC Berkeley professor Alison Gopnik was making a speech over Zoom to leading cognitive scientists from all over the world, accepting the Rumelhart Prize.

UC Berkeley’s Morrison Library was piled high with readers hopeful to gain a spot at Lunch Poems’ noontime poetry reading Feb. 2 with Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Louise Glück. 

Combining an online platform with a theoretical model, research from the UC Berkeley department of environment science, policy and management shows that cooperation toward a shared goal between individuals in a community can lead to the sustainable use of a “common-pool resource,” a resource that is available to all despite its inherent scarcity. 

UC Berkeley alumnus and chemistry Nobel laureate Robert Curl died July 3 at the age of 88.

The U.S. Patent Office ruled Monday that patents for some CRISPR technologies do not belong to the university and other partner institutions.

Glück meets the basic needs for her garden by compensating its physical meagerness with rich imagination and satirical fun.

The UC Board of Regents heard public comment, discussed diversity initiatives and approved capital projects and their budget for 2022-2023 at their meeting Wednesday. 

UC Berkeley professor of economics, David Card was awarded the 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel Monday.

The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine 2021 was awarded to David Julius, chair and professor of physiology at UCSF and a UC Berkeley alumnus.

UC Berkeley professors Inez Fung and Saul Perlmutter were appointed Wednesday to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, or PCAST.