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Mind & body

Indigenous knowledge helps biotech find new drugs. This grad student wants those companies to give back.

Many successful drugs are based on medicinal plants used and stewarded for generations by Native communities. A UC Berkeley doctoral student says these communities should also benefit.

Kelly Sparks, Berkeley's new vice chancellor for finance and chief financial officer, wears a black blazer and floral blouse. Her arms are crossed in front of her and she has dark-rimmed eyeglasses and shoulder-length blonde hair.

Campus news

Kelly Sparks is campus’s new vice chancellor for finance, CFO

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Awards

Six UC Berkeley faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Ann Johnson sits in her wheelchair with a cord plugged into a neuroprosthesis implant while she participates in a clinical trial helping to restore her ability to speak with a brain-computer interface

Research

Berkeley Voices: A stroke left her ‘locked in.’ With the help of AI, she heard her voice again.

Spotlight: Federal Updates

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UC updates on federal policy issues

A message about our commitment to UC Berkeley’s values and mission

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A message about recent federal visa program updates

Research

Politics & society

Watch as traffic safety research is explained in 101 seconds

The U.S. has the highest rate of road traffic fatalities among any wealthy nation. Here’s how UC Berkeley experts are working to make our roads safer.

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People

To understand immigration today, a UC Berkeley sociologist documented 200 personal stories

Research

Artificial leaf uses sunlight to capture carbon and produce valuable chemicals

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Mind & body

Scientists trick the eye into seeing new color ‘olo’

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Research

State abortion bans haven’t led to mass exodus of OB-GYNs, study finds

Arts & culture

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This year’s UC Berkeley summer reading list theme? Generosity

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Pulitzer-winning journalism professor discusses a ‘radical’ Berkeley experiment to develop the next generation of investigative reporters

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Podcasts

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Science of Happiness: Why going offline might save us

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Berkeley Talks: The case for a philosophical life, with Agnes Callard and Judith Butler

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People

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Two Berkeley professors receive prestigious Guggenheim fellowships

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A spate of suicides drew this alumna back to UC Berkeley to confront mental health issues in academia

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Campus & community

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UC Berkeley celebrates opening of Grimes Engineering Center

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This new course teaches UC Berkeley students the (nearly) lost art of disagreement

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