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Approved by the University of California Board of Regents on May 18, CDSS is UC Berkeley’s first new college in 50 years. The undergraduate majors in computer science, data science and statistics currently housed in the College of Letters and Science, or L&S, are expected to transition into the new college by spring 2024, according to Assistant Dean of Communications for CDSS Tiffany Lohwater. 

As of March 2023, UC Berkeley has joined the university’s open access agreement with Wiley Publishing.

Public health officials say that transmission of COVID-19, RSV and influenza will increase during the holiday season; however, this may not correlate to a significant increase in hospitalizations for severe disease, according to public health experts.

Researchers at UC Berkeley, Irvine and San Francisco have been awarded $4.7 million over five years to evaluate a project that supports the mental health needs of Latino patients with limited English proficiency.

UC Berkeley was ranked the fourth-best global university by the U.S. News & World Report for 2022, defending its place among other top universities.

Multiple experts from different health care fields met Tuesday to discuss research on telehealth and other digital health solutions and their implications for increasing equity in health.

Researchers looked at 274 unique brain scans to develop a new method to diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease, the leading cause of dementia, in live patients.

Deemed by his granddaughter Leia Tyrrell as the “most amazing man ever to have lived,” Elmer Grossman, a pediatrician at Berkeley Pediatrics, died Aug. 15 at the age of 91.

Dr. Michael Drake will be the next president of the UC system — the first person of color and the first Black person to hold the position.

After decades of impact on his family, his community and the field of public health and environmental sciences, Dr. Kirk Smith died in Berkeley on Monday at the age of 73.