In a tiny nation surrounded by Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Iran, the American University of Armenia opened to undergraduates for the first time last year.

UC Berkeley English professor Robert Hass has received the Wallace Stevens Prize from the Academy of American Poets, adding to his honors that already include a Pulitzer Prize and serving as the U.S. Poet Laureate from 1995 to 1997.

An outbreak of algae-produced biotoxins that attack animals'€™ brains also poses a grave risk to humans.

The soil that makes Napa Valley grapes so special also makes the region vulnerable to seismic activity.

Team led by UC San Francisco scientists has identified eight drugs, including antihistamine, that may stimulate nervous system repair in multiple sclerosis.

The violence that turns a small-town protest into a fiery national spectacle like the one that has played out this month in Missouri is often unwittingly provoked by police, according to researchers at UC Berkeley.

California will gain a new invasive species every 60 days. UC Riverside's Center for Invasive Species Research says some of these could lead to economic losses to the state of about $3 billion each year.