Celebrate the University of California’s newest Nobel laureates and hear their reflections on the value and impact of scientific discovery in this recorded conversation with UC President Michael V. Drake, M.D., and UC Board of Regents Chair John A. Pérez.

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.

Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Genzel will share half the 2020 Nobel in physics for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy.

In addition to all undergraduate campuses making the national top 100, UC also took four of the top 5 spots for social mobility.

A full 15 percent of the newly selected early-career faculty are researchers at UC.

Four alums and one professor earn prestigious fellowships to continue their creative work.

Forty with ties to the University of California recognized by the magazine as young leaders in their fields.

Genome-editing technology invented at UC Berkeley is year’s top innovation.

Four UC-connected innovators tackling subjects as varied as geology and racial bias in search engines have been awarded prestigious MacArthur fellowships.

The University of California is once again a leader in sustainability leadership and achievement, according to new rankings.

Six UC campuses rank among the top 10 public universities in the country, with all nine undergrad campuses among the top 50 in this year’s ranking.

America’s Top Colleges finds UC Berkeley to be the best school in America, public or private, with five other UC campuses in the top 50.