Berkeley News

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Campus news

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

Over 1,000 students and nearly 5,000 guests participated in this year’s event.

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Campus & community

For 20 years, this UC Berkeley program has helped students who’ve been in foster care succeed

Six images, arranged with three on top and three on the bottom, that are a representation of the array of stories at UC Berkeley in 2025. The images include a photo of Gov. Gavin Newso interacting in a lab, two people looking at Indigenous language materials, a rocket on a launch pad, the book Startup Campus, a person holding a baby, and Nobel Laureate Omar Yaghi.

Campus news

Nobel wins, psychedelic lilies and a mission to Mars: UC Berkeley’s top stories of 2025

Sanjay Shah and Rachelle Mendez appear in a photo together after graduating from UC Berkeley.

Campus news

How a UC Berkeley group project sparked two decades of TV hits

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.

A group photo of dozens of students standing on a beach at sunset in a photo taken during a recent tour across California to visit college campuses, organized by the UC Berkeley ETS team.

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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Humanities

From Bob Dylan to Ice Cube: Mapping 60 years of storytelling in pop lyrics

UC Berkeley researchers used machine learning to analyze more than 5,000 Billboard Hot 100 hits, finding that storytelling has been on the uptick since the 1990s thanks to the rise in popularity of hip-hop.

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Campus news

What’s powering these mysterious, bright blue cosmic flashes? Astronomers find a clue.

Politics & society

The housing crisis, explained in 101 seconds

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Research

UC Berkeley joins two new initiatives to accelerate responsible AI in California

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Research

Astronomers see fireworks from violent collisions around nearby star

Arts & culture

Artist Sarah Cain stands in her latest immersive installation at BAMPFA.

Come in, sit, stay a while: How alum Sarah Cain invites visitors into her paintings

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Gifts for every reader: New books by UC Berkeley authors

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Podcasts

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Berkeley Talks: How do we make better decisions? (revisiting)

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Berkeley Talks: The Page Act and the making of racialized US immigration control

People

A portrait of UC Berkeley's Josie Baltodano

UC Berkeley’s Josefina Baltodano named one of U.S. News’ 25 Best Leaders of 2025

Two UC Berkeley professors elected to the National Academy of Inventors

Campus & community

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UC Berkeley announces partner for supportive and affordable housing at People’s Park

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UC Berkeley’s introductory machine learning course gets optimized for the AI age

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