The first-generation UC Merced grad now leads Global Music and Youth Culture Communications for Instagram.
Awards pour in for the ‘pope of foam’
Brewing legend Charlie Bamforth has been honored this year with three prestigious global awards in his field.
New website amplifies refugee voices amid immigration crackdowns
Researchers map the perilous ordeals of thousands of displaced people through personal stories.
Thank Instagram and Snapchat for your fading memories
Documenting your life may come at the cost of actually being able to remember it.
UC Davis launches digital tool in Lebanon to help Syrian refugees reclaim right to education
Jihad Qusanyeh, imprisoned and tortured as a student, will be among the first to assemble his virtual ‘backpack.’
Welfare backlash tied to white fear of declining status
Racial resentment is found to fuel opposition to government anti-poverty programs.
Michael Pollan, on science, psychedelics and the human mind
The UC Berkeley professor talks his ‘trip’ through a whole new world on a new podcast.
Berkelium, Californium, Lawrencium? Peregrine name finalists chosen
The winning name combination will be announced on Friday, June 1, the day fledgewatch begins.
Mother and daughter become Fulbright scholars
Inspired by her daughter, Violet Barton applied to grad school, and now follows her to El Salvador on a Fulbright.
Can we really tell if it's love at first sight?
It's hard to tell long-term and short-term relationships apart in the beginning, a new study finds.
Did your great-great grandpa eat bugs?
A gene for digesting crunchy insects suggests that our common ancestor in the Age of Dinosaurs was an insect eater.
‘Star Wars’ cinematographer talks race and Hollywood
How Academy Award nominee Bradford Young found his way as a black filmmaker.