UC Berkeley French Professor Debarati Sanyal discusses William Kentridge’s “The Head & the Load,” which brings the history of ...

UC Berkeley supernova and black hole expert Alex Filippenko will share the 2026 Gruber Cosmology Prize, which was announced today (May 19) by the Gruber Foundation. The prize, one of the most ...

Charles Long couldn’t decide what to wear. He had doubted that he’d even make it to the final round of consideration as UC Berkeley’s top graduating senior. But there he was, in his University Village ...

Break-bone fever. The nickname alone attests to the pain that dengue fever can cause. Though about half the people who get the virus are asymptomatic, for the rest, an infection can be excruciating, ...

Fire touches every Californian. From the Pacific Palisades to the Sierra Nevada, entire communities have watched skies turn orange, breathed weeks of smoke, or known families forced to flee. Lenya ...

Repeatedly in the last three weeks, political events have caught Democrats off-guard and put them on their heels: President Joe Biden’s disastrous performance in a debate with challenger Donald Trump, ...

UC Berkeley has been named the top public school in the country, according to new rankings released today (Monday, Sept. 22) by U.S. News & World Report. It is the 16th time over the past two decades ...

The unprecedented fight to win congressional seats via gerrymandering voting districts pits California Gov. Gavin Newsom (left), a Democrat, against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican. But the fight ...

Proposition 40, the controversial measure to impose a one-time tax on California billionaires, has the support of 48% of likely voters ahead of November’s election, with 41% opposed, according to a ...

With the U.S. presidential election now just days away, worrisome signals are flaring on the political radar: Election officials in the battleground state of Pennsylvania sought to impede students ...

The following message was sent to all UC Berkeley students, staff, faculty and academics on Monday, Nov. 2. Dear Campus ...

The semester was over and the morning was still, but high above the UC Berkeley campus, the prestigious University Club was buzzing with energy. Top state policymakers and community leaders, along ...