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Business & economics

A bold calculation: What would it cost to end extreme poverty worldwide?

Using detailed surveys and machine learning computation, new research co-authored at UC Berkeley’s Center for Effective Global Action finds that eradicating extreme poverty would be surprisingly affordable.

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Campus & community

Despite budget threats, UC Berkeley invests in six new tenure-track Asian American and Pacific Islands specialists

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Arts & culture

How Emily Dickinson’s musical poetry pushes us to live more expansively

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Awards

School of Education strengthens Ph.D. pathways for HBCU students

Spotlight: Community-Engaged Research

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UC Berkeley is doing hundreds of research projects that go beyond the classroom and into communities. Here’s how.

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UC Berkeley college access program serving 1,500 students cut over ‘equity’ reference

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What is community-engaged research? Watch a professor explain in 101 seconds

Research

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Research

Why are Tatooine planets rare? Blame general relativity.

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars — even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

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Campus news

Born at UC Berkeley: a breakthrough in the treatment of sickle cell disease

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Campus news

These Berkeley researchers may stop the next pandemic — if we let them

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Research

Penguins are rewriting the social rules of Patagonian pumas

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Politics & society

Meeting basic needs: Possibility Lab issues new reports on water, food and public safety

Arts & culture

four small unfired clay figures depicting European merchants sit side by side in a line. You can see enormous attention to detail in the details on their coats, hands, hair and eyes.

In 18th‑century China, these artists made Europeans’ portraits. Only now are their identities emerging.

Law student Simone Browne sits behind the workings of the Carrillon at UC Berkeley, smiling.

For whom the bells toll: Student harmonizes love of music with law studies

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Podcasts

Ramzi Fawaz

Berkeley Talks: Ramzi Fawaz on the psychedelic power of the humanities

Victoria Gray

Rewriting the code: The inside story of the first CRISPR cure

People

Matteo Garboletto and his service dog S'Abba stand in front of a snow sculpture of the Olympic Rings atop a platform that reads Milano-Cortina

Deep in the Dolomites, a UC Berkeley professor and his service dog carry the Olympic flame

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In memoriam of Professor Emerita Clare Cooper Marcus, expert in user-centered design

Campus & community

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New course brings Harry Edwards’ sociology of sport to the next generation

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At Winter Commencement 2025, graduates are urged to advocate for justice and ask world-changing questions

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