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Law student Hoda Katebi: Iran protests are about ‘total liberation’

Women’s rights are central to the idea of how to build a new society for everybody, says Hoda Katebi, a third-year Berkeley Law student.
UC Berkeley |

Scientists discover secret to waking up alert and refreshed

Do you struggle with grogginess every morning, or fight to stay awake throughout the day? Sleep researchers offer tips.
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First-ever UC Berkeley program trains, certifies psychedelic guides

24 people in a first-of-its-kind training program are learning to safely guide patients’ psychedelic experiences in therapeutic and research settings.
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Defying negative stereotypes, humanities majors are booming at UC Berkeley

The number of first-year enrolled students declaring majors in the arts and humanities is up 121 percent over last year.
UC Berkeley Haas |

Study: Stereotypes of middle-aged women as less ‘nice’ can hold them back at work

Even as they achieve more power and capability on the job, middle-aged women can be held back by a perceived lack of “niceness,” new research finds.
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Boggled by your ballot? Five easy ways to get informed

Here’s how to quickly get up to speed about what’s at stake in the upcoming election.
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How old is Yosemite Valley?

The age of Yosemite Valley has been hard to pin down. UC Berkeley geologists now say it’s younger than we thought.
UC Newsroom |

Six UC alums awarded 2022 MacArthur ‘genius grant’ fellowships

Fellows are selected for their exceptional talent and creativity — and the promise of even greater things to come.
UC Berkeley Haas |

Depressed people are just more realistic, right? Not so, says UC Berkeley study

Depressive realism has held sway in science and popular culture for decades, but a rosier outlook may be overdue.
UC Newsroom |

Three remarkable scientists with UC connections win Nobel Prizes

This year, the winners in physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry all share one important distinction: important foundational time spent at UC, a cradle of inventiveness, experimentation and learning.
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Chemistry Nobelist Carolyn Bertozzi’s years at UC Berkeley

Bertozzi, who shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry, received her Ph.D. from Berkeley. She later became a professor in the College of Chemistry, where she conducting her seminal work.
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Physics Nobel recognizes UC Berkeley experiment on ‘spooky action at a distance’

John F. Clauser and the late Stuart Freedman carried out the first experiment to show the ‘weirdness’ of quantum physics.