From outbreak to vaccine, a new timeline captures UC’s historic mobilization against the coronavirus and the contributions of its many health care providers, researchers and scientists.
The race to conquer COVID — A timeline
How research is helping win the fight for trans rights
Despite a flurry of anti-trans legislation in conservative states across the country, there are many reasons to be hopeful, say UCLA’s Williams Institute experts Christy Mallory and Brad Sears.
The write stuff
A writing workshop for student veterans offers an opportunity to tell their stories and connect with peers.
Game on! Tune in to watch UC grad students explain their research in three minutes flat
Vote online for your favorite contestants during UC’s 6th annual Grad Slam contest.
Let’s get vaccinated, for our families and communities, says UC President Drake in a new video
President Drake, who provided vaccinations on a recent Sunday at a community hub in the Mission District, delivers a PSA on why getting immunized against COVID-19 is so important.
What Hollywood gets wrong (and right!) about protecting the Earth from asteroids
Meet Kirsten Howley, the real-life Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory astrophysicist working to prevent “Armageddon,” as UC celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (Feb. 11).
Why 2021 is the year of the ‘messy middle’ — and how New Year’s resolutions can help
Ask yourself these five questions when setting 2021 goals.
How UC fought COVID-19 in 2020
A look at where we started and how far we’ve come following the unprecedented mobilization of the health and research enterprise against a devastating pandemic.
The 10 biggest (non-COVID!) science stories you might have missed in 2020
During any other year, these groundbreaking advances would have been big news. Here’s some of what you may have missed while you were busy washing your hands.
UC President Drake congratulates UC Berkeley biochemist Doudna for chemistry Nobel win
University of California President Michael V. Drake, M.D., released today (Oct. 7) the statement below following the announcement of the Nobel Prize in chemistry. UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna won the 2020 Nobel Prize, sharing it with colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier for the co-development of CRISPR-Cas9, a genome editing breakthrough that has revolutionized biomedicine.
Jennifer Doudna wins 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Jennifer Doudna, UC Berkeley and UCSF professor and Berkeley Lab faculty scientist, shares the prize with Emmanuelle Charpentier for their discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 as a tool for making targeted changes to the genome.
Job burnout is a billion-dollar problem. Can we fix it, despite COVID-19?
Labor Day is here — a perfect time to reflect on job burnout, a problem that’s gotten worse with the pandemic. But the current workplace upheaval is also an opportunity to make real change, says UC Berkeley researcher Christina Maslach.