Homecoming events to boost your love for UC Berkeley
Gisselle Reyes/Staff
Homecoming weekend is here, and we want to make sure you are prepared to experience some of the very best that UC Berkeley has to offer.
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UC Berkeley researchers find extreme diversity and parasitism in squat lobster fossils
UC Berkeley researchers found extreme diversity and parasitism in the largest known collection of Jurassic squat lobster specimens, according to Adiël Klompmaker, co-author of the study and a postdoctoral scholar at the UC Museum of Paleontology.
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‘Maybe if I just put a beard on my face, people would listen to me’: The Bearded Lady Project premieres at Lawrence Hall of Science
The Bearded Lady Project was started in 2014 by Ellen Currano with the goal of whimsically upending the gender disparity within paleontology.
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UC Berkeley acquires more than 1,500 fossils for analysis
Researchers at the UC Museum of Paleontology, or UCMP, at Berkeley have been given more than 1,500 specimens — including 25 whale skulls — that were discovered at the Calaveras Dam.
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‘The quintessential academic’: UC Berkeley professor emeritus of geography Roger Byrne dies at 78
During his time on campus, Byrne established the Quaternary Paleoecology Lab and was an associate curator with the UC Museum of Paleontology, or UCMP.
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UC Berkeley researchers find mammal extinction may have affected current ecosystem
In a study published Monday, researchers, including one from UC Berkeley, discovered that the extinction of large land mammals near the end of the Ice Age had permanent effects on the Earth’s ecosystem.
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Campus research finds meteorite increased volcanic eruptions that contributed to dinosaur extinction
In a paper published Friday in Science magazine, UC Berkeley researchers came closer to settling a scientific debate over what killed the dinosaurs billions of years ago.
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